department of prints and drawings. 45 



Department of Prints and Drawings, 

 1. — Arrangement and Cataloguing, etc. 



Nineteen drawings from the Salting Collection were removed 

 in February from one of the screens in the King's Library, in 

 order to give place to fifteen drawings by the late J. M. Swan, 

 R.A., the gift of the John M. Swan Memorial Fund. 



The woodcuts described in Vol. II. of the Catalogue of 

 Early German and jFlemish Woodcuts, but not yet mounted, 

 have been re-arranged in two portfolios. 



The etchings by Goya, and the German book-plates in the 

 Franks Collection (T — Z), have been placed in order for 

 mounting. 



One hundred and ninety-one drawings and one thousand 

 and sixty-two 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. 



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

 Woodcuts has been published. 



The preparation of the Catalogue of Japanese Woodcuts has 

 been continued, and the main body of it completed. 



The preparation of a complete classified index of the works 

 of English artists represented in the Department has been 

 continued. 



The card index to periodicals has been completed and 

 brought up to date. 



The preparation of a critical and descriptive Catalogue of 

 the Dutch and Flemish Drawings has been begun. 



The work of taking stock of the prints after Italian Masters, 

 and making cross-references from these to the various indexes, 

 has been continued. 



The work of writing slips for the titles of prints after 

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

 index of that division of the collection has been continued. 



The work of compiling a topographical slip-index of the 

 English Drawings in the Department has been continued. 



Slips have been written for a chronological list of the 

 artists represented in the Catalogue of English Drawings and 

 for an index of the portraits in the same catalogue. 



A slip -index of the American Portraits has been made. 



The preparation of an index to the Catalogue of the Grace 

 Collection of London Views has been begun. 



The preparation of an index of the presses containing the 

 Books of Prints and Books of Reference has been completed. 



