sub-department of oriental prints and drawings. 33 



Sub- Department of Oriental Prints and Drawings. 

 I. — Arrangement and Cataloguing, ^c. 



A woodcut, printed in colour, bj: Y. Urushibara, after the 

 Chinese painting o£ Greese (Sung period) in the Museum Collection, 

 has been published and placed on sale. 



The final revision and printing of the Catalogue of Japanese 

 Woodcuts has been completed, and an introduction to it has been 

 prepared for press. The Supplementary Catalogue of Chinese 

 Woodcuts has been begun. 



With the consent of the Keeper of Oriental Printed Books and 

 MSS., the greater portion of the Japanese picture books and books 

 of designs preserved in that department have been transferred to the 

 Sub-Department in the interests of students of Japanese Art. 

 Among these books are a number of albums of colour-prints ; these 

 have been broken up, and the prints of better quality selected and 

 arranged for mounting. The books have been arranged according 

 to schools, placed, and labelled ; and a list of them has been prepared 

 for the use of students. 



The Index of Japanese Artists has been completed. 



All books of prints and books of reference, recently acquired, 

 have been catalogued, placed, and labelled. 



A card index of the books of reference has been made. 161 

 prints, paintings, &c., recently acquired, have been incorporated with 

 the divisions of the collection to which they severally belong. 



Registration. — 834 items have been entered in the Register of 

 Acquisitions. 



Stamping and Mounting. — 347 prints, paintings, &c., recently 

 acquired,, have been impressed with the departmental stamp and 

 references to the Register. 



3 Japanese paintings have been repaired and remounted. 



31 Indian paintings and drawings have been mounted on sunk 

 mounts, twenty-five of which have been specially cleaned and 

 repaired. 



428 Japanese prints have been mounted on sunk mounts, 98 of 

 which have been specially cleaned and repaired. 



II. — A cquisitions. 



The total number of paintings, prints, &c., acquired during the 

 year was 1,138, of which the following are the most important : — 



Chinese. 



Painting. 



Chao Meng-fu, after. Horses and Grooms. Makimono, painted 

 in colours. Presented hy Dr. Scott. 



