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From Miss Olivia and Miss Ida Walter, of Washington. 



Constantino Brumidi. The Five Senses.* 

 From Mrs. Henry Wells, of Washington. 



Murillo (Copied from). The Beggars. 

 From Mr. William D. Wheeler, of Washington. 



Thomas Sully. Portrait of the Artist's Daughter, Mrs. John 

 H. "Wlieeler, and her Sons. 

 From Hon. George Peabody Wetmore, of Newport, E. I. 



Constant Wauters. Versailles. 



Edouard Detaille. Military Review (Water color) . 

 From a friend of the Gallery. 



Paul Veronese (Attributed to the period of). The Finding 

 of Moses. 



ART TEXTILES. 



This important collection was enriched by many interesting ar- 

 ticles, all of w^hich were received as loans. Fifty-eight pieces of 

 laces from Mrs. H. Kirk Porter, of Washington, were mainly illus- 

 trative of the early history of lace, as drawnwork, reticella, cut-work, 

 embroidery, etc.; of bobbin lace of the I7th and 18th centuries; and 

 of applique and needlepoint laces of the IStli and 19th centuries. A 

 collection deposited by Mrs. Frank W. Mahin, wife of the American 

 consul at Amsterdam, Holland, comprised 43 pieces, including be- 

 sides a few embroideries, fine examples of point d'Alen^on, Venetian, 

 Argentan, Valenciennes, Mechlin, Brussels, Lille, Binche and other 

 varieties. 



Among the other noteworthy acquisitions were two pieces of 

 Venetian rose point lace, from Miss Clara Farrar Smith, of Wash- 

 ington ; a large number of embroideries on piiia cloth, most of them 

 antique and all showing fine needlework, from Mrs. Newton W. 

 Gilbert, of Manila, P. I.; ecclesiastical brocade costumes, Venetian 

 velvet of the 17th century, a piece of white silk embroidered in silver 

 and gold and an escutcheon, from Mrs. Levi P. Morton, of Wash- 

 ington and New York ; a square of rare purple cut velvet brocade of 

 Louis XVI and an embroidered waistcoat, from Miss Emily Tucker- 

 man, of Washington; a piece of Rhodian embroidery, an Empire 

 tapestry and a square of Genoese velvet with fringes, from Mrs. 

 Walter R. Tuckerman, of Edgewood, Md. ; and an important piece 

 of 15th century Flemish tapestry representing the departure of the 

 caravels of Columbus from Palos, from Mr. and Mrs. John L. Stew- 

 ard, of New York. 



The Museum was also greatly indebted for the loan, during a part 

 of the year, by Messrs. P. W. French & Co., of New York, of 6 

 examples of tapestries of great beauty and value, which may be 



