42 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Department of Prints and Drawings. 



1. — Arrangement and Cataloguing. 



The preparation of a general catalogue of the collection of 

 English Portraits has been continued. 



The preparation of the catalogue of German and early 

 Flemish woodcuts has been continued ; an introduction to 

 Part II. has been written, and the section on the work of 

 H. S. Beham completed. Proofs of the section dealing with 

 Diirer, as far as page 304, have been corrected. 



The third volume of the catalogue of English Drawings, 

 containing the names Ibbetson — Rysbrack, has leen pub- 

 lished ; and the preparation of the catalogue has been 

 continued to the name of T. H. Shepherd. 



The woodcuts by H. S. Beham have been rearranged 

 according to Pauli's recently issued catalogue. 



One hundred and four proofs of engravings in Turner's 

 " Liber Studiorum," bequeathed by Mr. Henry Vaughan, 

 have been mounted in sunk mounts and placed in four 

 solander cases. 



The collection of etchings by Charles Meryon has been 

 rearranged, and one hundred and eighty-one mounted and 

 lettered with names of subjects and references to the 

 catalogues of Wedmore, Burty, and Hey wood. 



The collection of engravings by Philippus Velyn bequeathed 

 by Mr. H. S. Ashbee has been placed in a portfolio, and 

 references to the names of the designers have been inserted 

 in the index of artists. Nine hundred and forty-six illustra- 

 tions to the works of Le Sage and La Fontaine, also forming, 

 part of the Ashbee bequest, have been arranged and placed. 



The work of arranging the collection of sketches by George- 

 Cruikshank for mounting in 10 albums has been completed. 



Twenty etchings by Frank Short have been mounted on 

 sunk mounts ; and a collection of etchings by J. Alden Weir 

 has been arranged and placed in a solander case. 



Forty-nine etchings, including eighteen printed in colours, 

 and ten lithographs, by Theodore Roussel, presented by the 

 artist, have been mounted on swing mounts, lettered, and 

 placed in three portfolios. 



Recently acquired Japanese and Chinese paintings have 

 been catalogued, and many valuable notes have been supplied 

 in correction and completion of the existing catalogue of the 

 Anderson collection, by Mr. R. Koliitsu of the Imperial 

 Museum, Tokio, with the help of Mr. Arthur Morrison. A 

 collection of Chinese and Japanese paintings and woodcuts 

 offered to the department during his life-time by Sir A. W. 



