44 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



prints from a set of the Passion by the master of the St 

 Erasmus; five pieces by the master E. S. of 1466; 12 by 

 Israel van Meekenem, 64 by Martin Schongauer, all in the 

 anost brilliant state; nine by Lucas van Ley den, 6.5 by 

 Albert Diirer, and 14 by the Behams and the other little 

 masters. Finally, of seventeenth century work, the collec- 

 tion contains 18 picked early states of etchings by Van Dyck, 

 -and 28 by Rembrandt. 



Presented by Sir A. Wollaston Franks, k.c.b., p.s.a., etc. 



(1.) A collection of 34-5 woodcuts taken from books, com- 

 prising 99 portraits and other subjects from S. Miinster's 

 Oosmographie " ; 18 portraits by Tobias Stimmer from 

 Reusner's " Icones Virorum Illustrium," 1587; 10 small 

 biblical subjects by Urs Graf ; 14 cuts by H. Schaeufelein and 

 •others from " Der Teutsch Cicero " ; two initial letters by 

 H. Holbein, and four by J. Amman , 116 by C. van Sichem 

 from a bible of 1657 ; 52 anonymous cuts from books printed 

 in Saxony ; and 13 early French metal cuts. 



(2.) A collection of 1,152 prints, principally' title-pages of 

 b)0oks ; of which 565 have been placed with the general col- 

 lection of title-pages, 21 with portraits, 61 with etchings by 

 Italian, German, Dutch and Flemish, French and English 

 masters; 221 with prints by Italian, German, Dutch and 

 Flemish, French and English engravers ; 157 with prints after 

 Italian, German, Dutch and Flemish, French and English 

 masters ; 45 with foreign woodcuts, 65 with the collection of 

 printer's marks, and 22 with costumes, ornaments, etc. 



The following are the most important among the other 

 acquisitions of the year : — 



Italian School. 



Dra^vings. 



Beccafumi, Domenico. Three pen and ink sketches. For- 

 merly in the Mead and Richardson collections. 



Borsato, Giuseppe. Four designs for the decoration of 

 ■ceilings ; water-colours, heightened with gold. 



Buonarroti, Michelangelo (attributed to). Study of two 

 nude male figures ; black chalk. 



Delia Bella, Stefano. A series of 14 pencil sketches worked 

 up with the pen, and in part tinted with water-colour, repre- 

 senting the entry of the Ambassadors of King Ladislas of 

 Poland into Paris, 25 Sept. 1645. 



Pisano, Vittore. Two leaves from a vellum sketch-book, 

 with drawings of animals. 



