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Department of Prints and Drawings. 

 I. — Arrangement and Cataloguing, Sfc. 



Exhibition. — The contents of the exhibition of Select Prints and 

 that of Recent Acquisitions have been varied in detail, among the 

 prints exhibited being selections of etchings by Meryon, Legros, 

 Frank Brangwyn, A.R.A., Sir Alfred East, R.A., Muirhead Bone, 

 and Col. R. Goff, lithographs by Albert Belleroche, and colour- 

 prints by A. W. Seaby. In July all the recently acquired prints 

 were removed to make room for an exhibition of the Sale Collection 

 of water-colour drawings. 



The engraved fans presented by Lady Charlotte Schreiber are 

 being exhibited in rotation. Two selections, of twenty each, were 

 shown during the year. 



Catalogues. — Vol. I. of the Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish 

 Drawings, describing the work of Rembrandt and his school, has 

 been published. 



A portion of Vol. V. of the Catalogue of Engraved British 

 Portraits, containing descriptions of the portrait groups, has been 

 printed, and an index to the separate persons contained in these 

 groups is being prepared. Progress has been made with the pre- 

 paration of a supplement to the main body of the Catalogue. 



The work of indexing foreign portraits contained in books of 

 prints, the works of engravers, and other parts of the collection to 

 which references had not yet been given, has been commenced. 



Arrangement. — The books of prints and books of drawings have 

 been completely rearranged, with more regard to schools, dates, 

 and subjects, and re-labelled. 



The card index to the books of reference has been continued, 

 and over 3,000 cards have been written. 



All books of prints and books of reference recently acquired 

 have been catalogued, labelled, and placed. 



The index of periodicals has been brought up to date. 



3,153 prints and drawings recently acquired have been incor- 

 porated with the divisions of the collection to which they severally 

 belong. 



Registration. — 3,694 items have been entered in the Register of 

 Acquisitions. 



Stamping and Mounting. — 11,288 drawings, prints, &c., recently 

 acquired, have been impressed with the departmental stamp and 

 references to the Register. 



The whole of the French drawings in the Malcolm Collection 

 have been mounted. 



242 drawings, recently acquired, have been prepared and 

 mounted on sunk mounts ; 59 prints have been mounted on sunk, and 

 57 on plain mounts ; 310 book-plates have been placed on paper 

 mounts. A large number of mezzotints from the Cheylesmore 

 Collection have also been placed on sunk mounts. All the above 



