42 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BEITISH MUSEUM. 



Department of Prints and Drawings. 



1. — Arrangement and Cataloguing. 



A selection of 256 prints has been removed from the 

 Bagford collection in the Department of Printed Books and 

 transferred to this Department ; and a list of them, with full 

 references to the volumes of the Bagford collection, has been 

 drawn up. 



The woodcuts by Lucas Cranach have been arranged in 

 chronological order in four portfolios ; and a list of them, 

 with references to Bartsch and Schuchardt, has been drawn 

 up. 



The line engravings by Lucas Cranach, Hans Baldung, 

 Ludw^ig Krug, and Urs Graf have been arranged in one 

 solander case. 



The collection of the works of Robert Graves, A. E., has 

 been sorted and arranged in two guard-books. 



The arrangement in a series of albums of the large collection 

 of sketches and studies by George Cruikshank has been 

 continued, and Nos. 4-6 have been completed. 



The collection of drawings by Flaxman and Stothard, 

 bequeathed by Mr. Henry Vaughan, has been arranged and 

 the subjects identified. 



A collection of tracings of subjects from the life of Christ, 

 executed and presented by Miss Louisa Twining, has been 

 arranged in a volume. 



The work of preparing, specially repairing, and mounting a 

 small selection of specimen English Mezzotints has been in 

 progress, and one hundred and thirty- two have been so 

 treated. 



The catalogue of the Schreiber collection of Playing Cards 

 has been completed and sent to press. 



Part I. of the catalogue of Early German and Flemish 

 Woodcuts has been completed and sent to press, and the 

 preparation of Part II. has been proceeded with. 



Volume 11. (D-H) of a descriptive catalogue of the collection 

 of English Drawings has been published, and the preparation 

 of Vol. III. has been continued, and carried down to the name 

 Pars. 



The preparation of a catalogue of the collection of English 

 Portraits has been resumed. 



All Books of Prints and Books of Reference recently 

 acquired have been indexed and placed on the shelves, and 

 titles have been written for articles in thirteen volumes of 

 periodicals for 1898-9, for the index of Books of Reference. 



