44 accounts, etc., of the bkitish museum. 



Department of Prints and Drawings, 

 1. — Arrangement and Cataloguing, etc. 



An exhibition of the drawings bequeathed by the late 

 Mr. George Salting was arranged in the public gallery of the 

 Department in March, replacing the exhibition of works by 

 DUrer. In May these drawings were removed, and a selection 

 of them has since been shown on screens in the King's Library. 

 From one screen the Salting drawings were removed in De- 

 cember, in order to give place to eleven drawings by Dante 

 Gabriel Rossetti, the bequest of the late Col. William James 

 Gillum. 



In June an exhibition of Chinese and Japanese paintings, 

 forty-seven of the most important of the Chinese series being 

 from the collection acquired early in the year from Frau Olga- 

 Julia Wegener, was opened in the public gallery of the 

 Department. A guide to the exhibition has been printed and 

 put on sale. 



The etchings and engravings in the Salting Collection have 

 been examined and compared in detail with the impressions 

 already in the Department. Those immediately wanted for the 

 main Museum Collection have been incorporated with it ; and 

 the duplicates thus displaced have been included in a new list 

 of additional duplicates available for exchange. 



The prints from the Salting and Malcolm Collections not 

 immediately wanted for the main Museum Collection have been 

 arranged in a new reserve series. 



The engraved work of Albrecht Diirer has been rearranged 

 in chronological order and placed in four solander cases, instead 

 of the three formerly occupied. 



The lithographs of H. Daumier have been rearranged in the 

 order of Delteil's catalogue, one hundred and fifty-four new 

 specimens being incorporated with the collection. 



The collection of etchings by Sir F. Seymour Haden, 

 acquired from the artist's executors, has been arranged in three 

 portfolios. 



Fifty-four drawings and one thousand four hundred and 

 forty-six prints have been incorporated with the divisions of 

 the collection to which they severally belong. 



All books of prints and books of reference recently acquired 

 have been catalogued, labelled, and placed. 



Fifty-six pamphlets have been arranged for binding in 

 volumes. 



The Catalogue of Early Italian Prints, in two volumes, one of 

 text, the other of illustrations, has been published. 



