42 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BKITISH MUSEUM. 



Depaetment of Prints and Drawings. 

 1. — Arrangement and Cataloguing, etc. 



A portion of the mezzotints exhibited in the public gallery 

 has been withdrawn, and an exhibition of drawings, engravings, 

 and woodcuts by Albrecht Diirer has been arranged in its 

 place. 



The collection of woodcuts by H. Burgkmair has been re- 

 arranged for mounting. 



The collection of lithographs by C. H. Shannon has been 

 arranged, in catalogue order, in a portfolio. 



A series of drawings by Sir George Scharf has been 

 arranged in an album. 



The woodcuts by T. Sturge Moore and those by Lucien 

 Pissarro have been arranged in albums. 



Two hundred and ninety-eight drawings and eight hundred 

 and seventy-two prints, recently acquired, have been incorpo- 

 rated 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 J)reparation of Vol. ii. of the catalogue of Engraved 

 British Portraits has been continued. 



All engraved British Portraits recently acquired, belonging 

 to classes I. -VI., have been catalogued. 



The preparation of a critical and descriptive catalogue of the 

 collection of Japanese Woodcuts has been continued. 



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

 and Flemish Woodcuts has been continued, and the proofs of 

 Division C. have been corrected and returned to the printers. 



The revision of the proofs of the catalogue of Early Italian 

 Engravings has been completed, and an appendix of water- 

 marks and indexes has been prepared. 



The work of revising the indexes of artists, with the aid of 

 Thieme and Becker's new lexicon, has been continued to the 

 end of Vol. ii. of that work. 



The prints by Whistler possessed by the Department have 

 been marked off in Mansfield's Catalogue of Whistler's Works. 



Titles have been written for articles in the " Jahrbuch der 

 Preussischen Kunstsammlungen," " Zeit&ichrift fiir Bildende 

 Kunst," and other periodicals, 1907, for the catalogues of books 

 of reference. 



