26 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



have been lettered with the artists' names and references to the 

 Register and to Catalogues. 



161 drawings have been mounted in albums. 



101 drawings, 634 prints, and 664 mounts have been cleaned. 



Students. — The total number of visitors admitted to the Print 

 Room during the year ended 31st December 1915 was 5,781, being 

 375 in excess of the number for 1914 ; in the latter year, however, 

 the room was closed for over four months. 



Photographing. — 231 applications were made for leave to photo- 

 graph, and 803 photographs were taken. 



II . — A cquisitions. 



The total number of prints, drawings, books, &c., acquired 

 during the year was 3,819, of which the following are the most 

 important : — 



Italian School. 

 Drawings. 

 Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista. Two drawings of figures ; pen and 

 bistre wash. 



Prints arranged to illustrate the Works of Masters. 

 Sanzio, Raffaello. St. George, from the picture now at Petro- 

 grad. Engraved in 1628 by David des Granges, an engraver of 

 whom no record appears to exist. Presented by R. Ross, Esq. 



German School. 

 P>rawi7igs. 

 Diirer, Albrecht. Group of knights riding and tilting ; signed 

 and dated 1489 ; pen and ink ; from the Andreossi, Lawrence, and 

 Ginsburg Collections. Study of costume, undated ; pen and ink ; 

 from the Wellesley and Ginsburg Collections. Presented hy the 

 Diirer Society. 



Engravings. 

 Anonymous engraver called " Der Meister mit den Blumen- 

 rahmen " (15th cent.). " The Passion of Christ," twenty-six small 

 engravings in a volume, from the Huth Collection. 



Metal-cut. 

 SS. Oswald and Notburga. Unique dotted print of the 15th 

 cent. Schreiber 1717. From the Huth Collection. 



Woodcuts. 

 St. Anne. Coloured woodcut of the 15th cent., with a prayer 

 for use in time of pestilence, and an indulgence containing the date 

 1494, cut upon the block. From the S. Leigh Sotheby Collection. 

 A copy of this woodcut, at Nuremberg, is described by Schreiber, 

 No. 1195. Presented by H. Van den Bergh, Esq., through the 

 National Art- Collections Fund. 



