44 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Photographing. — Two hundred and seventy-six applications 

 were made for leave to photograph, and 1,292 photographs 

 were taken. 



II. — Acquisitions. 



The total number of prints, drawings, books, &c. acquired 

 during the year was 6,657,* of which the following are the 

 most important : — 



Italian School. 



Drawings. 



Cambiasi, Luca. Two women attacked by soldiers. Black 

 chalk, pen, and sepia wash. Presented hy Walter Sickert, Esq. 



Engravings. 



Perfetti, Antonio. Sibylla Persica, after Guercino. Proof 

 before letters. 



Etchings. 



Mitizanetti, G. Twelve etchings of landscape and Venetian 

 subjects. Presented by Sydney V etcher, Esq. 



Piranesi, Giovanni Battista. Ninety-four subjects of the 

 " Vedute di Roma " in early states, before the plates were 

 re-worked. Interior of the Temple of Neptune at Paestum ; 

 unpublished and probably unique trial proof of a rejected 

 plate, corresponding in subject to PI. 12 of the published 

 series of twenty views of Paestum. 



Prints arranged to illustrate the Works of Masters. 



Dorelli, Carlo. The Certosa of Pavia, engraved by 

 J. Coney. 



Vecellio, Tiziano. Danae, engraved by G. Folo ; proof. 



German School. 

 Drawings. 



Leu, Hans II. St. Bartholomew, signed and dated 1521 ; 

 pen and ink. Presented by the National Art-Collections 

 Fund. 



Menzel, Adolf von. Workman grasping a hammer ; black 

 chalk. 



Wachter, Georg Friedrich Eberhard von. Mercury and 

 Argus, 1798 ; pen and bistre and bistre wash. Presented 

 hy J. R. Saunders, Esq. 



"Werner, Carl Friedrich Heinrich. The House of Pilate, 

 Jerusalem ; water-colour. Presented, by E. E. Leggatt, Esq. 



* This number includes 4,014 items, chiefly prints and drawings, from the Banks 

 and Ashbee bequests, transferred from the Department of Printed Books. 



