38 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Department of Prints and Drawings. 



1. — Arrangement and Cataloguing, etc. 



The exhibition of Japanese and Chinese Paintings, which 

 had occupied the gallery of the Department since June 1910, 

 was closed in April, and an exhibition of five hundred and 

 sixty-live drawings by masters of the British and Continental 

 Schools, acquired with few exceptions since 1904, was opened in 

 June. 



The drawings from the Salting Collection, together with 

 drawings by Rossetti and Swan, for some time exhibited in the 

 King's Library, have been removed, and eight Chinese and 

 Japanese paintings have been transferred from the gallery of 

 the Department to replace them. 



The preparation, and transcription for press, of the Cata- 

 logue of Japanese Woodcuts have been continued. 



The preparation of a complete classified index of the works 

 of British artists represented in the Department has been 

 continued. 



The preparation of a critical and descriptive Catalogue of 

 the Dutch and Flemish Drawings has been continued. 



Yol. III. of the Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits 

 has been published. 



The printing of the facsimile in colours of the Early 

 Chinese Roll painted by Ku K'ai-chih has been completed, and 

 the mounting of the several portions of the facsimile is in 

 progress. The descriptive text has been printed. 



The card index to periodicals has been brought up to date. 



All books of prints and books of reference recently acquired 

 liave been catalogued, labelled, and placed. 



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. 



An index to the Catalogue of the Crace Collection of 

 London Views has been completed. 



A collection, hitherto unarranged, of reproductions of prints 

 by Old Masters has been classified and put in order. 



The work of verifying the contents of the cases from the 

 case-list and inserting the case-number in the various port- 

 folios, etc , has been completed. 



The woodcuts by Hans and Ambrosius Holbein rtnd other 

 Basle artists, from the Mitchell Collection, have been combined 

 in a single series with those in the older part of the collection, 

 and duplicates have been eliminated. 



