DEPAETMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 43 



The collection of photographs executed for the National 

 Photographic Record and survey has been sorted and arranged 

 topographically in eighty boxes in one of the two basement 

 rooms placed at the disposal of the Department of Prints and 

 Drawings by the Department of Printed Books. 



The loan collection of framed duplicate engravings has 

 been removed to and arranged in the adjacent basement 

 room, together with all spare exhibition frames belonging to 

 the Department. 



Eight hundred and twenty-eight prints and one hundred 

 and forty-two drawings recently acquired have been incor- 

 porated with the collections to which they severally belong. 



The collection of eighteen hundred and fifty-one Japanese 

 colour-printed woodcuts (on two thousand one hundred and 

 one sheets), acquired from Mr. Arthur Morrison, has been 

 received, checked, and sorted as a preliminary to the work of 

 registration and mounting. 



All books of prints and books of reference recently 

 acquired have been catalogued, labelled, and placed on the 

 shelves. 



The preparation of a general catalogue of the collection 

 of English Portraits has been resumed. 



The preparation of a descriptive catalogue of the collection 

 of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts has been continued, 

 and the MS. of the whole division relating to the School of 

 Augsburg completed and prepared for press. 



Vol. IV. of the catalogue of English Drawings, containing 

 in alphabetical order the names from S to Z, has been com- 

 pleted and is passing through the press. The preparation of 

 a supplementary volume has been commenced. 



The preparation of a catalogue of the collection of 

 drawings by Rembrandt, for departmental use, has been 

 completed ; a subject index to his drawings and etchings, and 

 a bibliography of the subject, have also been drawn up. 



The preparation of a descriptive catalogue of the collection 

 of. fifteenth-century Italian Engravings has been commenced 

 and completed so far as concerns the Florentine School. 



A MS. index to the recently published " List of Works of 

 Early English Engravers " has been prepared. 



Titles have been written for articles in the " Gazette 

 des Beaux Arts" and various other foreign periodicals for 

 insertion in the catalogue of Books of Reference. 



The collection of Turner's "Liber Studiorum " has been 

 marked off in the new edition of Rawlinson's catalogue. 

 :■-■:'■ The collection of foreign royal portraits has been provided 

 'with new wrappers. 



The preparation of an index to the Banks collection of 

 shop bills, invitation cards, &;c. has been continued. 



