38 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Department of Prints and Drawings. 



I. — Arrangement and Cataloguing. 



About seventy of the drawings exhibited in the public 

 gallery have been removed and replaced by new acquisitions, 

 including examples by Lucas van Leyden, Hans Schaufelein, 

 Antoine Watteau, Charles Keene, and Richard Redgrave, R.A. ; 

 and a second edition of the guide, to correspond with the 

 aforesaid changes, has been issued 



The collection of nielli (silver plates and sulphur casts) has 

 been arranged in the standard exhibition case in the Students' 

 Room. 



A collection of duplicate portraits of naval commanders 

 has been lent to the Committee of the Naval Exhibition at 

 Liverpool. 



The collection of Italian chiaroscuro prints has been 

 re-arranged. 



The collections of prints after Murillo, Velazquez, Van 

 Dyck, N. Poussin, G. Morland, and T. Stothard, have been 

 sorted and re-arranged. 



The collection of the works of Sir Robert Strange has been 

 re-arranged in chronological order, the progress proofs and 

 states being formed into a distinct series. 



The general collection of the works of English engravers 

 has been re-arranged, the progress and trial proofs being 

 placed in a separate series, and the sets of small book illus- 

 trations in another. 



The general collection of prints after English Masters has 

 been re-arranged in 23 portfolios. 



The portraits of all members of the Royal Houses of 

 England have been brought together and arranged as a 

 separate class. 



The collection of French portraits has been revised and 

 re-arranged, the prints being placed in wrappers inscribed 

 with the names. 



The contents of four portfolios of miscellaneous unarranged 

 prints have been distributed. 



Two collections of engraved title-pages have been sorted, 

 those with artists' names being removed and distributed 

 among the general collection of artists' works, and the 

 remainder arranged in one portfolio. 



The prints withdrawn from the public exhibition in the 

 Northern Gallery have been returned to their respective 

 portfolios, after being carefully examined with a view to the 

 separation of duplicates. 



All the plates by George Cruikshank included in the collec- 

 tion of English satirical prints have been taken out and 

 incorporated with the series of the master's works. 



The 



