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delphia from January 3 to 16, 1923. It has been returned to the 

 gallery. 



The portrait of Sir James J. Shannon, K. A., painted in London 

 in Sir James's studio by Orland Rouland (1871- ), was lent 

 to Mr. Rouland to be included in an exhibit of his paintings in New 

 York City, April 15-25, 1923. The painting has been returned to 

 the gallery. 



The portrait of Gen. George Washington, by Rembrandt Peale, 

 belonging to Hon. and Mrs. Charles S. Hamlin, and the portrait of 

 George Washington, by Charles Willson Peale, the property of 

 Mr. John S. Beck, and recorded as loans to the gallery, were lent, 

 by permission of their respective owners, to the Pennsylvania Acad- 

 emy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pa., to be shown at the academy's 

 exhibition of portraits by Charles Willson Peale, Rembrandt Peale, 

 and James Peale, April 11 to May 9, 1923. These paintings have 

 been returned to their places in the loan collection. 



SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS 



An exhibition of American handicrafts assembled and circulated 

 by the American Federation of Arts was held in the gallery from 

 November 1 to 25, 1922. It included jewelry, enamels, carved ivory, 

 silver, pewter, iron, pottery, decorated china, batik and block-printed 

 textiles, weavings, needlework, bookbinding, illuminations, book 

 plates, designs for advertising, stained glass, wood carving, and 

 lacquer, and consisted of 212 items, as shown by the catalogue pre- 

 pared by Miss Elizabeth Neat and printed privately. The regents 

 and secretary of the Smithsonian Institution extended invitations to 

 an opening private view of the exhibit on the afternoon of Wednes- 

 day, November 1, and many persons attended. 



A collection of antique Etruscan, Greco-Roman, and Byzantine 

 jewelry, and ancient glassware, pottery, and a bronze statuette of 

 Nyx (Night), dating from the seventh century B. C. to the eleventh 

 century A. D., was exhibited in the gallery under the auspices of 

 the Archaeological Society of Washington, Dr. Mitchell Carroll, 

 secretary, from January 10 to April 23, 1923. This collection is the 

 property of Mr. Kurt W. Bachstitz, of The Hague, Holland, by 

 whom it was lent to the Archaeological Society. A reception by the 

 society was held on the evening of January 9, when the members 

 and friends assembled to hear the lecture by Count Byron Kuhn de 

 Prorok on his recent excavations at Carthage viewed the collection. 



The Chicago Tribune exhibit of 90 original architectural draw- 

 ings, selected from over 200 designs submitted in the Chicago Tri- 

 bune's $100,000 architectural competition for their new $7,000,000 

 administration building was held in the gallery April 19 to 21. 



