38 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Indian Drawings. — Some finely executed Indian Drawings, 

 chiefly connected with the cult of Vishnu. I7th century ? 

 Folio. 



The number of Oriental Printed Books consulted by 

 Readers during 1894 was 3,752, and the number of Oriental 

 MSS. consulted during the same period, 3,092. 



Robert K. Douglas. 



Department of Prints and Drawings. 

 1. — Arrangement and Cataloguing. 



An exhibition consisting of about 500 drawings by Old 

 Masters, and 450 engravings of the early German and Italian 

 schools, taken partly from the Malcolm and partly from the 

 departmental collections, has been arranged in the wall and 

 standard cases and swing frames in the public gallery. A 

 guide to the drawings has been prepared and issued. 



The Students' Room and Exhibition Gallery were closed 

 for repainting from 12th August to 8th September ; during 

 that period the clerical work of the Department was carried 

 on in the assistants' room and the corridor on the mezzanine 

 floor, and students were admitted in special cases when it was 

 possible to satisfy their wants. 



The task of mounting and repairing the works of the 

 founders of the art of mezzotint engraving, viz. : — L. von 

 Siegen, Prince Rupert, T. C. von Fiirstenberg, J. Thomas, A. 

 Blooteling, W. Vaillant, B. Vaillant, J. van Somer, P. van 

 Somer, J. Verkolje, N. Verkolje, and G. Valck, has been com- 

 pleted, and they have been arranged as a separate series in 

 19 royal and two imperial portfolios. 



Albrecht Diirer's great woodcut of the Arch of Maximilian, 

 in 92 sheets, has been joined and mounted on linen for 

 exhibition. 



The collection of drawings by Albrecht Diirer has been 

 arranged according to the Keeper's printed catalogue. 



The engravings belonging to the Malcolm collection have 

 been carefully examined and compared with the examples in 

 the Museum collection, and their condition noted. 



The collection of Italian engravings and etchings of and 

 posterior to the 16th century has been revised and re-arranged, 

 references to Bartsch and other works being added and dupli- 

 cates examined. The works of Agostino Carracci, Cherubino 

 Alberti, and Battista Franco have been placed in separate 

 portfolios, and many of the hitherto unidentified prints have 

 been incorporated, the remainder being sorted and re-arranged» 



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