40 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



The preparation of a catalogue of all the English Mezzotints 

 contained in the Department has been continued. 



All books of prints and books of reference recently acquired 

 have been indexed and placed. 



Two hundred and eighty-five titles and cross-references 

 have been inserted in the catalogue of books of reference. 



The new chronological lists of English and foreign print- 

 sale catalogues, with alphabetical indexes, have been com- 

 pleted and bound. 



A working index to the collection of prints after Sir Edwin 

 Landseer has been formed by marking off the prints and 

 making additions in an interleaved copy of Graves's printed 

 catalogue. 



The transcription of entries in recent volumes of the 

 Register on separate slips for painter, engraver, and subject 

 has been continued. 



One thousand eight hundred and thirty-six prints and 

 drawings recently acquired have been incorporated with the 

 collections to which they severally belong. 



Six thousand six hundred and fifty -eight prints, drawings, 

 etc., have been impressed with the departmental stamp and 

 references to the Register. 



Six hundred and one drawings and five hundred and ninety 

 prints have been placed on sunk mounts, and six hundred and 

 fifty-seven prints have been mounted in the ordinary manner. 



Two thousand three hundred and forty -four items have been 

 ^entered in the Register of Acquisitions. 



The number of students and visitors admitted to the Print 

 Room during the year ending 31st December 1894 was 5,705. 



One hundred and ninety-nine applications were made for 

 leave to photograph objects in the collection, and 1,032 

 photographs were taken. 



II.— Additions. 



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

 the year was 4,886, of which the following are the most 

 important : — 



Italian School. 

 Draivings. 



Sanzio, Rafi'aello (attributed to). The Virgin and Child ; 

 finished cartoon in black chalk, pricked for transfer to canvas. 

 This is the celebrated cartoon formerly in the possession of 

 J. B. Ceccomani, at Perugia, and afterwards successively in 

 that of Mr. Cunningham and Colonel Stirling of Glentyan. 

 A picture corresponding to it, formerly in the Orleans Gallery 

 and now in England, is known from the names of its later 

 possessors as the Hope, Rogers, or Mackintosh Madonna. 



