46 . ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



The prints by Urs Graf have been guarded and mounted in 

 a volume. 



Seventy-four prints from the Lanna Collection have been 

 mounted in the volumes containing the works of the Little 

 Masters. 



One hundred and forty-three duplicate prints selected for 

 exchange have been mounted and stamped with a special 

 stamp. 



The work of stamping the foreign book-plates in the Franks 

 Collection has been begun. 



Five drawings by Michelangelo have been protected with 

 gelatine and mounted in special mounts. 



Seven Chinese paintings, four Japanese paintings, one 

 hundred and forty-five Japnese Woodcuts, requiring special 

 treatment, have been repaired and cleaned. 



Students. — The total number of visitors admitted to the 

 Print Room during the year ending 31 December 1910 was 

 9,343. 



Photographing.— Four hundred and five applications were 

 made for leave to photograph, and 2,418 photographs were 

 taken. 



II. — A cquisitions. 



The year 1910 has been marked in the history of the 

 Department by an unusual number of important acquisitions, 

 some made by bequest, some by gift, some by purchase, and 

 some by gift and purchase combined. The bequest of the late 

 Mr. George Salting, received in January, included two hundred 

 and twenty-seven drawings and two hundred and eight 

 engravings of various schools, many of them of the highest 

 value and importance. In February the chief part of the 

 collection of ancient Chinese paintings formed by Frau Olga- 

 Julia Wegener, to the number of a hundred and forty-seven 

 pieces in all, was acquired partly by purchase and partly by 

 a fund privately subscribed. In April a large and represen- 

 tative collection of the etchings of Sir Francis Seymour Haden, 

 formed expressly for the Museum by the artist, was purchased. 

 About the same time Mrs. Robert Low presented fifty-nine 

 drawings by various foreign and English masters, from the 

 collection of her ]ate husband. Lady Layard gave a hundred 

 and ninety-two engraved portraits, chiefly French and Italian. 

 The National Art Collections Fund presented six of the finest 

 designs made by Alfred Stevens for ceramic and goldsmith's 

 ware, and an impression of the excessively rare Japanese colour 

 print " the Awabi fishers," by Utamaro. In November 

 Messrs. Agnew presented forty-two proofs of modern engravings, 

 including the most important of their publications of recent 

 years. In December eleven drawings by Dante Gabriel 

 Rossetti, bequeathed to the Museum by the late Col. Gillum, 



