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ings recently acquired have been incorporated with the collec- 

 tions to which they severally belong. 



Two thousand four hundred and thirty items have been 

 entered in the Register of Acquisitions. 



Four thousand four hundred and ninety-four prints, draw- 

 ings, etc., have been impressed with the departmental stamp 

 and references to the Register. 



Six hundred and sixty-nine drawings and six hundred and 

 fifty-three prints have been placed on sunk mounts, and 

 five hundred and twenty prints and photographs have been 

 mounted in the ordinary manner. 



The number of students and visitors admitted to the Print 

 Room during the year ending 31st December 1893 was 5,645. 



Leave to photograph 998 objects in the collection was 

 granted to 138 applicants. 



II. — Additions. 



The total number of prints, drawings, etc., acquired during 

 the year was 3,026, of which the following are the most 

 important : — 



Italian School. 



Drawings. 



Anonymous (Venetian School). Design for a chalice, 

 elaborately executed in pen and ink ; engraved (under the 

 name of Mantegna) by Hollar, when in the possession of the 

 Earl of Arundel. From the Barnard, Lawrence, and Holford 

 collections. 



Bartolommeo, Fra. Virgin and Child, with angels, and 

 three studies of heads ; pen and ink. Formerly in the Spencer 

 collection, and engraved (under the name of Perugino) in 

 Ottley's " Italian School of Design." 



Buonarroti, Michelangelo. Large and important cartoon for 

 a composition of the Holy Family and Evangelists. Presented 

 by J. Wingjield Malcolm, Esq., c.B. 



Pollaiuolo, Antonio. A prisoner brought before a judge ; 

 allegorical group of eight naked figures ; pen and sepia. 



Viti, Timoteo. A female head ; fine drawing by the master 

 in black chalk. 



Etchings. 



Tempesta, Antonio. Set of one hundred and fifty plates of 

 subjects from Ovid's Metamorphoses. 



Engravings. 



Pavon, Ignazio. St. John the Divine ; after Domenichino. 



Toschi, Paolo. Virgin and Child, with St. Jerome ; after 

 Correggio ; proof of the plate as it was left at Toschi's death. 



Toschi. Paolo (School of). Two figures of Apostles ; fresco 

 by Correggio in the cupola of the church of San Giovanni, 

 Parma ; " remarque " proof. 



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