28 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Stamping ani Mounting. — 4,498 drawings, prints, &c,, recently 

 acquired, have been impressed with the departmental stamp and 

 references to the Register. 



186 drawings have been mounted. 



128 select colour prints of the French school have been mounted. 



55 etchings by Sir Charles Holroyd, 38 woodcuts by L. Rodo, 

 9 etchings and lithographs by R. Schwabe, and other prints by 

 modern artists in smaller numbers have been mounted. 



Numerous prints and drawings have been mended and cleaned. 



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

 Room during the year ended December 31st, 1919, was 2,588. 



Photographing. — 142 applications were made for leave to photo- 

 graph, and 744 photographs were taken. 



II. — Acquisitions. 



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

 during the year was 3,237. The most important acquisition was 

 that of a selection of fine and rare engravings and woodcuts of the 

 Italian, German, Flemish and French Schools from the collection at 

 Northwick Park, Worcestershire, formed in the first half of the 19th 

 century by Lord Northwick. These are mentioned, with other 

 acquisitions, under the various schools. 



Italian School. 

 Drawings. 



Parentino, Bernardo. Composition in the style of an antique 

 I'elief ; captives seated beneath a trophy of arms, and Victory 

 writing on a shield (a companion drawing, of similar subject, is 

 in Christ Church Library, Oxford) ; pen and ink. Fresented by 

 the late Sir Edward Poi/nter, Bart., P.R.A. 



Piazzetta, Giovanni Battista. Group of figures ; black chalk. 

 Presented hi/ A. G. B. Russell, Esq., Rouge Croix. 



Engravings. 



Anonymous, 15th Century. A white horse rearing, and a 

 draped female statute ; with the initials F. A., probably not a 

 signature. From the Sykes, Lloyd and Northwick collections. 

 One other impression is known, at Rome. 



Anonymous, Milanese School (after Zoan Andrea). Two upright 

 panels of ornament, copies of B. xiii. 308, 27 and 309, 30. 

 Northwick collection, 



Barbari, Jacopo de. The Sacrifice to Priapus, B. 21. Northwick 

 collection. 



Brescia, Giovanni Antonio da. Trophy of arms, undescribed. 

 Panel of ornament inscribed " Victoria Augusta," after Nicoletto da 

 Modena, also undescribed, but Bartsch (xiii. 330, 22) describes a 

 woodcut copy of this engraving. 



