10 BRITISH MUSEUM 



Prints and Drawings. 



The more noteworthy of the additions were : a unique anonymous 

 Florentine fifteenth century engraving with twelve roundels of animal 

 designs ; a line-engraving, St Francis, by Benedetto Montagna ; a 

 line-engraving by N. A. Mair, presented by subscribers as a tribute to 

 Campbell Dodgson, Keeper, 1912-32 ; a series of coloured etchings of 

 Fox-hunting, by Thomas Rowlandson, presented by the National 

 Art-Collections Fund ; ten old-master drawings presented by Mrs. 

 Selwyn Image ; a drawing by Fragonard, Nessus and Deianira (after 

 Rubens), presented by the National Art -Collections Fund ; and 190 

 sketches and sporting subjects by J. and R. Pollard, presented by 

 Mr. A. du Cane. 



Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities. 



The chief purchases were : Egyptian sculptured stone head-rests, 

 a carnelian figure of Amen-Ra, and a colossal ram sphinx, of about 

 700-660 B.C. ; a Babylonian painted vase of an early date, and a small 

 Sumerian head. 



Gifts included an Egyptian collection bequeathed by Mr. W. L. S. 

 Loat ; scarabs presented by Miss K.V. Okey and Prof . Newberry ; and a 

 valuable long hiera-tic pap3rrus of early date and eight drawings by 

 Mrs. de Garis Davies, presented by Dr. A. H. Gardiner. The Egypt 

 Exploration Society gave a sculptor's trial piece, a stone vase in the 

 form of a duck, and a scarab, all from Amarna. The Trustees of the 

 late J. J. Stevenson, in accordance with his wishes, presented a 

 selection from his Egyptian collection, and Mr. O, C. Raphael gave a 

 fine painted jug from Luristan. 



Greek and Roman Antiquities. 



The Department received, from an anonymous donor, three marble 

 palettes of the Early Cycladic period, from Mrs. Ormerod a Greek 

 chalcedony intaglio of fifth century B.C., and from Mr. S. C. Atchley 

 a sard intaglio of first century B.C. 



The Earl of Elgin deposited on loan a collection of gold jewellery of 

 the Geometric period, from Athens, and a series of fibulae, armlets, etc., 

 from Early Iron Age tombs near Potidaea, with a mid-fifth century 

 B.C. statuette of Athena flying her owl. Mr. H. L. Stephenson pre- 

 sented a Corinthian aryballos and an Attic black hydria, and Mr. 

 Sidney Smith, a Phoenician bowl engraved with friezes, from Amathus, 

 Cyprus (the long lost " Amathus " bov/1 of the Cesnola Collection). 



British and Medieval Antiquities. 



A valuable and interesting series of jewelled gold ornaments, part 

 of a treasure found at Cesena, Italy, and a group of bronze ornaments 

 probably from Hungary, were acquired with the assistance of the 

 National Art-Collections Fund. The Christy Trustees continued their 

 long series of gifts to the department, in particular a Bronze Age spoon, 

 and a series of pottery vessels, glass, and objects of bone and iron from 

 an Anglo-Saxon hut at Bourton-on-the-Water. Mr. R. Garraway Rice 

 bequeathed palaeolithic flint implements from various localities in 

 England, a series of Bronze Age weapons and pottery, and a series of 

 antiquities of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. 



