DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 35 



A valuable copy of the Encyclopaedia of the Ikhwan-us- 

 Safa, a volume containing the theological works of the founder 

 of the Wahhabi sect, and four Sanscrit MSS., have been 

 presented by Colonel S. B. Miles. 



Edward Scott. 



Department of Prints and Drawings. 



I. — Arrangement and Cataloguing. 



An exhibition of original drawings and sketches by artists 

 of various schools and periods, mostly obtained by purchase, 

 bequest, or gift, within the last seven years, has been 

 arranged in .517 frames, and placed in the gallery in the 

 White Building. The exhibition was opened to the public 

 on 2nd March and a guide to it has been issued. 



The series of woodcuts, engravings, etchings, and mezzo- 

 tints exhibited during the last four years in the Second Nor- 

 thern Gallery has been withdrawn in order to ifiake room for 

 collections belonging to the Departments of Oriental and 

 British and Mediaeval Antiquities. 



A series of duplicate portraits of British admirals has 

 been lent to the Committee of the Royal Naval Exhibition, 

 Chelsea. 



The works of the German and Flemish engravers of the 

 fifteenth century have been re-examined, and information 

 derived from the recent researches of Dr. M. Lehrs and others 

 noted upon them. 



The second sets of the works of Martin Schongauer and 

 Israhel van Meckenem have been broken up, a portion of the 

 prints being incorporated with the main series, and the rest 

 laid aside as duplicates. 



The supplementary collections of engravings by the more 

 important of the Little German Masters have been inserted 

 in the guard-books with the main series ; and the unmounted 

 prints by other German artists of the sixteenth century have 

 been arranged in alphabetical order. 



The collection of woodcuts by and attributed to Albrecht 

 Diirer has been sorted and re-arranged according to the 

 numbering of Heller. 



A large collection of prints after Rubens, acquired during 

 the year, has been incorporated with the old collection, and 

 the whole re-arranged in accordance with the classifica- 

 tion adopted by Max Rooses in his " L'CEuvre de P. P. 

 Rubens." 



The collection of prints after Sir Joshua Reynolds has been 

 re-arranged according to Dr. Hamilton's catalogue, and a 

 working index of the collection has been prepared. 



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