36 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



The large collection of engraved title-pages presented by Sir 

 A. W. Franks has been incorporated with that already 

 possessed by the Department, and the whole arranged 

 according to places and dates of publication. 



The collection of etchings by foreign artists working in 

 England has been re-arranged in three portfolios. 



The collection of the works of Robert Graves, a.r.a., has 

 been re-arranged. 



The important collection of water-colour drawings of old 

 buildings in London, by J. Wykeham Archer, has been re- 

 classified, and a new index to it has been prepared. 



The contents of one of the albums of Hollar's works have 

 been re-arranged, recent additions being incorporated. 



The contents of several cases in the gallery of the students' 

 room, chiefly volumes of reproductions, have been classified 

 and re-arranged in order to provide space for future 

 additions. 



All books of prints and books of reference acquired during 

 the year have been indexed and placed. 



The expanded index of artists of the French school has 

 been printed and published. Two copies of it have been cut 

 up, mounted on sheets, and bound in two volumes, to form- 

 the working index of the Department. 



The preparation and transcription for press of a general 

 catalogue of the collection of English portraits has been 

 continued. 



The preparation of a descriptive catalogue of the collection 

 of English Drawings has been commenced and carried down 

 as far as the name Copley. 



The preparation of a catalogue of all the English mezzotints 

 contained in the Department has been continued. 



Catalogues have been prepared of all the books in the 

 Department containing woodcuts of the German school, and 

 of the German woodcuts placed with portraits and historical 

 prints. 



All the prints described in Bartsch's " Peintre-Graveur " 

 which are possessed by the Department have been marked off 

 in an interleaved copy of that work. 



A new index to the works of Marcantonio Raimondi, 

 Agostino Veneziano, and Marco da Ravenna has been pre- 

 pared, with a key to the numbers in Bartsch. 



The preparation of slips for an index to the collection of 

 foreign Portraits has been commenced. 



The catalogue of the collection of English mezzotints has 

 been transcribed in slip form. 



A list has been drawn up from the marked copy of Chaloner 

 Smith's "British Mezzotinto Portraits" of all the prints men- 

 tioned therein, which are required to complete the Museum 

 collection. 



All new names have been entered, and all necessary altera- 

 tions eff'ected in the general indexes of artists. 



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