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The general collection of English mezzotints has been re- 

 distributed through the volumes, the works of Valentine 

 Green and J. Raphael Smith being removed and arranged 

 separately in five guardbooks. 



The collection of English theatrical portraits has been 

 examined and revised. 



The Moll collection of foreign engraved portraits has been 

 impressed throughout with a special stamp, sorted, classified, 

 and incorporated with the general collection. 



The collections of foreign Royal portraits have been ex- 

 amined, sorted and re-arranged, and a MS. catalogue of them 

 is in course of preparation. 



The collection of German portraits has been re-arranged in 

 eighteen portfolios, the Swiss, Hungarian, and Bohemian 

 being separated from it, and grouped as distinct collections. 



The collections of English satirical prints, foreign litho- 

 graphs, foreign historical prints, and English and foreign 

 topography have been re-arranged. 



The identification of the collection of proof book-illustra- 

 tions bequeathed by Felix Slade, Esq., has been continued and 

 completed, and four thousand two hundred and ninety-one 

 have been incorporated with the works of the respective 

 engravers. 



All books of prints and books of reference, including the 

 duplicate volumes recently transferred from the Department 

 of Printed Books, have been catalogued and placed on the 

 shelves. 



The new departmental book-plates ha,ve been pasted into the 

 collections of books of prints and books of reference, and the 

 pressmarks have been transferred to them. 



References to the works of Hollar, Faithorne, Sir J. 

 Reynolds, Sir T. Lawrence, and various other separate collec- 

 tions have been added to the new general index of English 

 portraits. One thousand four hundred and seventy additional 

 titles have been written for the same. 



Titles for a new catalogue of the collection of English 

 mezzotints, and a subject index to the same, have been prepared. 



The preparation of an index to the collection of prints after 

 J. M. W. Turner, r.a., in accordance with Mr. Rawlinson's 

 forthcoming catalogue, has been continued and completed. 



The preparation of titles for a new index to the collection of 

 sale catalogues has been completed. 



The preparation of an index to the prints and drawings con- 

 tained in the Anderdon set of Royal Academy catalogues has 

 been continued. 



The work of copying the entries in recent volumes of the 

 Register of Acquisitions on separate titles for painter, en- 

 graver, and subject, has been commenced. 



One thousand two hundred and thirty-six prints and 

 drawings, recently acquired, have been incorporated with the 

 collections to which they severally belong. 



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