department of prints and drawings. 27 



Department of Prints and Drawings. 

 I. — Arrangement and Cataloguing, Sfc. 



Arrangement. — 188 drawings and 2,088 prints recently acquired 

 liave been incorporated with the divisions of the collection to which 

 they severally belong. 



133 Dutch and Flemish drawings from the Malcolm collection 

 have been placed with the drawings by the same artists that were 

 previously in the collection. The Malcolm collection is thereby 

 completely incorporated with the other drawings. 



41 books of drawings and prints have been placed. 



The etchings and engravings by Le Clerc, Picart and Eidinger 

 have been re-arranged, after the addition of numerous specimens 

 presented in 1917 by Lady Lucas. 



A selection of engravings of the French school printed in 

 colours has been mounted and arranged in ten solanders as the first 

 instalment of a new series of select colour prints. 



The work of mountino- and lettering the Select Mezzotints of 

 the Cheylesmore collection has been completed. 



Aquatints of the Dutch, Flemish and German schools have been 

 separated from etchings, as the first instalment of a new series of 

 aquatints placed as a separate class. 



The drawings by Diirer have been marked with the numbers of 

 Lippmann's publication ; the drawings of Rembrandt and his 

 school with the numbers of the catalogue by Mr. A. M. Hind ; and 

 the etchings of Whistler with the numbers and dates of Mr. E. G. 

 Kennedy's catalogue. 



The work of re-arranging the engravings by Raimondi in the 

 order of Bartsch has been begun. 



Catalogues and Indexes. — Work has been resumed on the 

 catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings, and study of the 

 drawings by Rubens for this purpose is in progress. 



Work has been resumed on the catalogue of British engraved 

 portraits, and the preparation of the fifth volume is in progress. 



The work of indexing foreign portraits contained in books of 

 prints has been continued. 



The work of inserting the new references to case, shelf and 

 number in the indexes of artists has been continued, and this has 

 now been completely done with the exception of the German index. 

 An index of painters and engravers represented in the Lucas 

 collection has been completed. 



ExJiihition. — The exhibition gallery remained closed throughout 

 the year. 



Registration. — 4,244 items have been entered in the Register of 

 Acquisitions. 



