DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 4S 



The work of writing slips for the titles of prints after 

 English Masters, with a view to the preparation of a subject 

 index to that division of the collection, has been continued. 



The preparation of slips for an index to the collection of 

 photographs presented by the National Photographic Record 

 has been continued. 



The work of arranging in alphabetical order the slips written 

 for the Banks collection of trade-cards, admission tickets, etc» 

 has been completed ; and the work of examining the Franks, 

 collection of similar prints, and removing those of which there 

 are duplicates in the Banks collection, has been begun. 



The preparation of a complete classified index of the works, 

 of English artists represented in the Department has been 

 begun. 



An index to the artists represented in the collection of 

 Japanese Woodcuts has been prepared. 



Additions and corrections to the indexes of artists, rendered 

 necessary by recent acquisitions and re-arrangements, have 

 been carried out. 



Twenty-five volumes containing book-plates, belonging to 

 the Franks collection, have been labelled and placed. 



The transcription for press of the catalogues of British 

 Portraits and Japanese Woodcuts has been continued. 



All the books of prints in the cases contained in the Keeper's, 

 Assistant-Keeper's, and Assistants' rooms have been compared 

 with the Library Catalogue, and notes have been given to an 

 Assistant in the Department of Printed Books of the books or 

 editions which are wanting in the Library Catalogue. 



A collection of duplicate engravings in 81 frames, lent 

 to the Macclesfield Art Museum, has been returned in good 

 order. 



Registration. — One thousand nine hundred and thirty-three 

 items have been entered in the Register of Acquisitions. 



Stamping and Mounting. — Three thousand nine hundred 

 and forty-two prints, drawings, etc., recently acquired, have 

 been impressed with the departmental stamp and references to 

 the Register. 



Four thousand and forty-four ordinary mezzotints belonging 

 to the Cheylesmore Collection have been stamped and fixed in 

 wrappers for their better preservation. 



Two hundred miscellaneous drawings have been prepared 

 and mounted on sunk mounts, and two hundred and fifty prints 

 have been mounted either in sunk mounts or in the ordinary 

 manner. 



Three hundred and thirteen Early Italian prints have been 

 temporarily removed from their mounts and examined for 

 watermarks, and two hundred and sixty-eight have been re- 

 mounted on sunk mounts. 



