department of prints and drawings. 4-3 



Department of Prints and Drawings. 

 1. — Arrangement and Cataloguing. 



The exhibition of drawings in the public gallery has been 

 withdrawn and replaced by an historical series of choice 

 mezzotints, chiefly from the Cheylesmore collection. A 

 guide to this exhibition, which was opened in June, has been 

 issued. 



A series of seventy-eight portraits and historical prints 

 and drawings has been brought together and contributed 

 to the Nelson Centenary Naval Exhibition in the King'& 

 Library. 



The mezzotints by anonymous and foreign engravers 

 belonging to the Cheylesmore collection have been sorted,- 

 identified as far as possible, and arranged in wrappers. 



The work of sorting and arranging in wrappers the 

 collection of portraits of English royal personages bequeathed 

 by Lord Cheylesmore has been commenced, and completed 

 so far as concerns the predecessors of Queen Victoria. 



The prints of ornament by Michael Le Blond have been 

 re-arranged, with the addition of heraldic plates from 

 the Franks collection, and references to Van der Kellen's 

 catalogue added throughout. 



The collection of XVth and XVIth century printed 

 books, illustrated with woodcuts, presented by Mr. William 

 Mitchell, has been provisionally arranged. 



The collection of etchings by Eembrandt has been defini- 

 tively arranged in accordance with the chronological sequence 

 recently adopted, and a catalogue and key to it have been 

 prepared for departmental use. 



The collection of etchings and aquatints by Paul and 

 Thomas Sandby has been re-arranged, the recent bequest 

 of Mr. William Sandby being incorporated. 



The collection of etchings and lithographs by J. McNeill 

 Whistler has been arranged for mounting, with references to 

 the catalogues of Wedmore and Way, 



The Franks collection of shop-bills, &c., has been sorted 

 and arranged, all duplicates being eliminated. 



The volumes of drawings in cases 131 and 131*, in the 

 Keeper's study, have been re- arranged and numbered. 



One thousand nine hundred and ninety-six prints, one 

 hundred and forty-eight drawings, and thirty-one packs of 

 playing-cards hove been incorporated with the collections 

 to which they severally belong. 



All books of prints and books of reference recently 

 acquired have been indexed, labelled and placed. 



