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Prints and Drawings. 



Among drawings : landscape by John Constable, from the Heseltine 

 Collection, presented by Mr. AKred Jowett ; portrait of Fraulein Zollner, 

 by Ambrose McEvoy, j^resented by a group of subscribers ; a number of 

 water-colours by the testator and other artists, bequeathed by the late 

 A. W. Rich ; twelve drawings and water-colours by Sir Francis Seymour 

 Haden, presented by Mrs. H. N. Harrington and Mr. H. JST. Harrington, 

 Jun. ; attributed to Rembrandt, Study of a woman, possibly Saskia, 

 seated, presented by Mr. I. de Bruijn ; J. B. Greuze, two figure studies, 

 one presented, the other purchased with the aid of a donation from Mr, 

 I. de Bruijn ; J. B. C. Corot, Portrait of a woman, and Paul Cezanne, 

 Study for " I'Amour en Platre," presented by the National Art- Collections 

 Fund ; Edouard Manet, portrait study of Berthe Morisot, purchased with 

 the aid of a donation from Mr. Louis Clarke ; two large anonymous 

 Florentine drawings of the 15th century, with stencilled background, of 

 angels holding candlesticks ; G. B. Tiepolo, the death of a Capuchin 

 Monk; and Sebastiano del Piombo, a study for the Visitation in Sta 

 Maria della Pace, Rome, presented by Mr. Victor Koch. 



Engravings ; the collection of 206 altered plates, formed hy the late 

 Marquess of Sligo, presented by the 7th Marquess of Sligo in memory of 

 his father; W. Blake, " the Child of Nature " and " the Child of Art," 

 hitherto undescribed, purchased with the aid of a donation from 

 Mr. C. H. St. J. Hornby; and twenty-five lithographed portraits of 

 notabihties at Geneva by E. X. Kapp, presented by Mr. S. Courtauld, 

 Sir Michael Sadler and an anonymous donor. 



Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities. 



Egyptian : a glass dog, from an inlaid panel of a box, probably of the 

 XXVIth Dynasty; and 131 ostrace, inscribed in Demotic, Coptic and 

 Greek, presented by Sir Robert Mond. 



Babylonian : a very remarkable agate frog of the time of the Agade 

 dynasty, the natural markings of the stone being used to emphasize the 

 design. 



From Western Asia : a valuable collection of pottery and small 

 antiquities from the earliest civilized settlement to about 1500 B.C. from 

 the excavations at Tal Chager Bazar in N. Syi'ia, which were supported 

 by the British School of Archaeology in Iraq, Mr. M. E. L. MalloAvan, Sir 

 Charles Marston, Mr. A. L. Reckitt and public subscriptions, and directed 

 by Mr. Mallowan under the auspices of the Trustees. 

 Greek and Roman Antiquities. 



The chief acquisitions were nearly all small early Greek antiquities ; 

 collections of such were presented by Miss Debenham (from Kerch) and 

 by Mrs. Clare Parsons ; an Etruscan gold fibula, c. 600 B.C., was presented 

 by Prof. J. D. Beazley ; among purchases may be mentioned a Corinthian 

 arybaUos or oil-bottle, c. 600 B.C., with a design of Herakles shooting an 

 arrow at a Centaur; and another oil-bottle, Attic, of the beginning of 

 the 4th century, modelled in the form of a young man. 

 British and Medieval Antiquities. 



Many excavators or site owners presented representative collections of 

 their finds ; chief among these were a large series of flint implements, 

 flakes and cores from the Clacton palseohthic industry, presented by 

 Miss Mary Nichol and Mr. K. P. Oakley, F.G.S. ; another, collected from 



