DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 41 



Department of Prints and Drawings, 



1. — Arrangement and Cataloguing. 



A portion of the drawings exhibited in the public gallery 

 has been withdrawn, and replaced by one hundred and 

 seventy-four examples selected from the Eeeve collection of 

 works by artists of the Norwich School. 



The work of examining the Cheylesmore collection of 

 British mezzotint portraits, dividing the prints into two 

 classes, special and ordinary, marking each print according to 

 its number in the catalogues of Chaloner Smith and others, 

 and entering corresponding references in the catalogues them- 

 selves, has been continued and completed. 



The collection of etchings by Felix Buhot, presented by 

 his widow, has been arranged in a portfolio. 



The collection of etchings by Charles Meryon has been 

 re-arranged in seven volumes, space being left for additions. 



The prints from the '' Kokka " magazine of Japanese art 

 have been sorted and arranged under the several schools and 

 artists. 



The work of providing the English Portraits with lined 

 cartridge wrappers for their better protection has been com- 

 menced and nearly completed, and the labels on the portfolios 

 in which they are kept have been renewed throughout. 



A large number of pamphlets, hitherto kept loose in 

 solander cases, have been classified according to subject and 

 size, and bound up in twenty-four volumes. 



Four thousand two hundred and eighty-six prints and 

 two hundred drawings recently acquired have been incor- 

 porated with the collections to which they severally belong. 



All Books of Prints and Books of Keference recently 

 acquired have been catalogued and placed. 



Volumes II. and III. of the catalogue of the English 

 division of the Franks collection of Book-plates, completing 

 the work, have been published. 



The work of inserting references to the Cheylesmore col- 

 lection in the index of English Portraits has been commenced. 



The preparation of a descriptive catalogue of the collec- 

 tion of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts has been 

 continued. 



The preparation of a descriptive catalogue of the collec- 

 tion of English Drawings has been continued and carried 

 down to the end of letter T. 



A catalogue of the collection of etchings by Rembrandt in 

 the chronological order in which the etchings themselves are 

 arranged, has been prepared. 



