EEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1911. 59 



annual exhibition, from April 27 until the end of the fiscal year. 

 " Musa Regina," by Henry Oliver Walker, and " Plymouth Hills," 

 by John W. Beatty, to the International Exposition of Art and His- 

 tory at Rome, Italy, from March 27 to November 1, 1911. 



A number of requests for permission to make and publish photo- 

 graphic reproductions of paintings in the Gallery were granted dur- 

 ing the year. Some of these reproductions were to be issued in the 

 form of separate pictures of a high standard of process work, and 

 others in books and periodicals. In anticipation of such demands, a 

 set of regulations was formulated, which is designed to restrict the 

 copying of any work in the Gallery to legitimate art purposes, 

 whether professional or for the benefit of the public. 



ART TEXTILES. 



The collection of laces and other art textiles continued to receive 

 the same hearty support as during the previous two years, and has 

 now attained such a growth as to make its importance notable. It 

 occupies the eastern north range in the older Museum building, where 

 the specimens are installed in table and upright cases and to some 

 extent on the walls. The collection consists mostly of loans and con- 

 tains much that is old, rare, and choice — selections generously made 

 from their treasure stores by many ladies of Washington to assist in 

 establishing this interesting feature of museum exhibition. There 

 have been some valuable gifts, and it is hoped that, as the significance 

 of the collection in stimulating art studies and art work becomes 

 better understood, it will assume more and more a permanent char- 

 acter, which is one of the objects sought to be attained. The success 

 of the movement has been mainly due to the untiring efforts of Mrs. 

 James W. Pinchot, by whom it was initiated and to whom the 

 Museum is indebted for important gifts and loans. 



The number of accessions during last year was 35, all of which 

 with three exceptions were loans. They comprised 249 specimens, 

 and since* only 21 specimens from previous loans were withdrawn, the 

 total number on exhibition at the end of the year was 1,007. 



The loan contributions of laces, aggregating 107 examples, were 

 principally as follows : Miss Emily Tuckerman, Venetian rose point, 

 gros point de Venise, Venetian " seaweed " lace, point de France et Per- 

 sonages of Louis XIV, Spanish point, point de Genes, reticella, Alen- 

 5011, early Mechlin, and Italian bobbin ; Mrs. Richard G. Lay, Binche, 

 old Spanish, Argentan, Flemish, Gothic, Mechlin, and thread; Mrs. 

 John Cropper, reticella of the seventeenth century, deep points of 

 reticella of the early seventeenth century which had been used as trim- 

 mings for a noble's boot tops, punto in aria, bobbin lace, and Alencon 



