DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. .45 



Vol. II. of the Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits has 

 been published. 



The preparation of a critical and descriptive catalogue of the 

 collection of Japanese Woodcuts has been continued. 



Vol. II. of the Catalogue of Early German and Flemish 

 Woodcuts has been completed and, with the exception of the 

 Appendix of supplementary notes, printed off. 



The preparation of a complete classified index of the works 

 of English artists represented in the Department has been 

 continued. 



The preparation of a card-index to articles in periodicals 

 has been begun. 



The work of writing slips for the titles of prints after 

 English Masters, with a view to the preparation of a subject 

 index to that division of the collection, has been continued. 



The work of examining the Franks Collection of trade-cards, 

 admission tickets, etc., and removing those of which there are 

 duplicates in the Banks Collection has been continued. 



The work of writing and arranging slip-titles of the Books 

 of Prints and Books of Reference has been taken in hand as 

 the first step towards the preparation of a complete shelf-list 

 or index to the contents of presses. 



The work of compiling a typographical slip-index to the 

 English drawings in the Department has been begun. 



The preparation of slips for an index to the collection of 

 photographs presented by the National Photographic Record 

 has been continued. 



The work of inserting additions and corrections to Chaloner 

 Smith's Catalogue of British Mezzotinto Portraits in a second 

 copy, interleaved, has been begun. 



The typewriting for press of the Catalogue of Japanese 

 Woodcuts has been continued. 



Additions and corrections to the indexes of artists, rendered 

 necessary by recent acquisitions and re-arrangements, have 

 been carried out. 



The compilation of a second working copy of the register of 

 the Cheylesmore Collection has been begun. 



Registration. — Four thousand and sixty-six items have been 

 entered in the Register of Acquisitions. 



Stamping and Mounting. — Five thousand eight hundred 

 and eighty-one prints, drawings, etc., recently acquired, have 

 been impressed with the departmental stamp and references to 

 the Register. 



One hundred and thirty-five miscellaneous drawings have 

 been prepared and mounted on sunk mounts, and five hundred 

 and thirty-nine prints have been mounted either in sunk 

 mounts or in the ordinary manner. 



