42 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



collection of playing-cards, with the exception of those items 

 of which duplicates were already in the Museum collection. 



The contents of the first three of these acquisitions are 

 summarized below. The work of sorting and classifying the 

 fourth had not been completed at the close of the year 1895 ; 

 a summary of its contents is in consequence deferred until the 

 annual return for 1896. 



Sets and Collections. 



The Mitchell Collection. 



A collection of 1,290 early woodcuts, chiefly German, 

 constituted as follows : — 104? by anonymous German artists 

 of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries ; 151 single cuts by 

 Albert Dlirer, together with the Little Passion (set of proofs), 

 the Life of the Virgin (first state, without text), and the 

 Great Passion, the Life of the Virgin, and the Apocalypse (all 

 with Latin text, edition of 1511) ; 63 by Hans Schaufelein, 

 including two sets of proofs of two series of the Passion ; 

 18 by Hans Springinklee, including 14 proofs of illustrations 

 to " Hortulus Animse "; seven by Wolfgang Huber ; 36 by 

 Hans Baldung ; seven by Johann Wechtlin ; 19 by Hans 

 Sebald Beham ; 43 by Lucas Cranach, including an unique 

 impression of- the St. George, printed in gold on a blue 

 ground ; 60 by Albert Altdorf er ; 40 by Hans Burgkmair ; 

 317 by or attributed to Hans Holbein ; nine by Urs Graf ; 

 12 by Heinrich Holzmiiller ; 14 by J. von Calcar ; five by Jost 

 Amman ; 11 by Anton von Worms ; 16 by Lucas van Leyden; 

 six attributed to Geoffroy Tory ; one attributed to Marie de 

 Medicis ; the large view of Venice by Jacopo de Barbarj, 

 first state ; nine by Niccolo Boldrini ; five by " I. B. with 

 the bird ;" three by Francesco de Nanto ; 43 in chiaroscuro 

 by Ugo da Carpi, A. Andreani, A. da Trento, G. B. Coriolano, 

 A. Campi, A. Ghandini, and G. Bianchini ; and 78 by other 

 minor and anonymous artists. Presented hy William Mit- 

 chell, Esq. 



The Malcolm Collection. 



This collection consists of 940 drawings, 24 pages cut from 

 illuminated MSS., and 312 engravings. The drawings 

 are subdivided into schools, numbering approximately 460 

 of the Italian, 355 of the Flemish and Dutch, 36 of the 

 German, 65 of the French, and 24 pf the Spanish. Like all 

 collections, it contains a certain proportion of second rate 

 pieces and copies ; but the general average is extremely high, 

 and among the authentic and standard examples by great 

 masters are included the following : — In the Italian schools, 



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