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Interior, by Vischer, after Ostade; a Family Concert, by J. G. 

 Wille, after G. Schalken; Holy Family, by B. Desnoyers, after 

 Raphael; Holy Family, by unknown artist; Aurora, by Ralph 

 Morghen, after Guido. Etchings. — Christ healing the sick, by 

 Dick; Cows, by Roos; Horses, by Paul Potter; Fireside, by 

 Boissieu; Goats (two), by Berghem; eleven etchings by Rem- 

 brandt ; eleven etchings by Ostade and others ; twelve etchings 

 by Clodowiecki. Mezzotint. — An Old Beggar, by Townley, after 

 Dante. Figures in marble and plaster. — Antique marble head of 

 Ceres; cast of a bas-relief of "Phoebus" from a marble found in 

 the ruins of ancient Troy, in 1873, by Doctor Schliemann; mar- 

 ble bas-relief of a Bacchante; copy of the Venus de Medici; 

 Sleeping Child ; The Hunter with birds and game ; female sitting, 

 with two infants; female recumbent, with a lamb; female 

 crouching; female nude, half rising; two females standing; me- 

 dallion of William Wilson ; equestrian statuette of Andrew Jack- 

 son; statuette of the Duke of Orleans; statuette of Daniel 

 O'Connell; statuette of a boy holding a ewer; wooden model of 

 the Nelson monument in London. Plaster busts. — Washington, 

 Baron Cuvier, Laplace, Dixon H. Lewis, Peter Force, Benjamin 

 Hallowell, E. K. Kane, Thomas Le Clear, Ferdinand Pettrich, 

 Mrs. F. Pettrich, Gustave Adolph Pettrich, six small busts of 

 F. Pettrich's children. The Nativity and Adoration of the 

 Kings, by Heinrich Goltzius. Bruggemann Album of Photo- 

 graphs, illustrating the altar screen in the Cathedral at Schleswig. 



With a few exceptions, these objects remained at the Corcoran 

 Gallery until 1896, such as were suitable for the purpose being 

 placed on exhibition and listed in the catalogues. In the same 

 year such parts of the Marsh collection as could be located at 

 the Library of Congress, then in the Capitol building, were also 

 brought back to the Institution. 



After the deposit in the Library of Congress and the loan to 

 the Corcoran Gallery, such specimens of art as remained were 

 for the most part distributed among the offices, though many 

 of the busts were placed on the tops of cases in exhibition 

 halls. Besides a number of prints which had been framed for 

 hanging on the walls, however, there was little of real merit 

 left, and most of the objects have since been assigned to their 

 appropriate places in the Museum classification. At this period 



