DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS, 43 



Department of Prints and Drawings. 



1. — Arrangement and Cataloguing, etc. 



The drawings by Henri and Rudolf Lehmann have been 

 withdrawn from exhibition in the King's Library and returned 

 to their cases. 



A series of engraved portraits has been contributed to the 

 Chatham Bicentenary exhibition in the King's Library. 



A series of engraved portraits has been contributed to the 

 Milton Tercentenary exhibition in the King's Library. 



The collections of Italian, German and Dutch duplicate 

 prints have been examined and arranged, and a schedule of 

 those available for loan or exchange has been drawn up. 



The collection of etchings by Fran9ois Courboin has been 

 arranged in a portfolio. 



The woodcuts by Laurence Housman have been arranged 

 in an album. 



One hundred and ninety-two drawings and two thousand 

 nine hundred and eighty-seven prints recently acquired have 

 been incorporated with the collections to which they severally 

 belong. 



All books of prints and books of reference recently acquired 

 have been catalogued, labelled, and placed. 



The preparation of a catalogue of the collection of engraved 

 British Portraits has been continued, and vol. i. completed and 

 published. 



All engraved British Portraits recently acquired, belonging 

 to classes I.-VL, have been catalogued. 



The preparation of vol. ii. of the catalogue of Early German 

 and Flemish Woodcuts has been continued. 



The preparation of a critical and descriptive catalogue of the 

 collection of Japanese Woodcuts has been continued. 



The preparation of a catalogue of the collection of Early 

 Italian Engravings has been completed, and it is passing 

 through the press. 



A complete list of the Cheylesmore collection of eight 

 thousand and sixty mezzotint portraits (including a few prints 

 of other kinds), arranged under the engravers' names, has 

 been drawn up and transcribed into a volume of the Register, 

 and a copy has been made for the use of the testator's 

 representatives. 



The Cheylesmore collection of two thousand seven hundred 

 and fifteen miscellaneous portraits of Queen Victoria and her 

 family has been sorted and arranged, and a list drawn up for 

 transcription into the Register. 



