BRITISH MUSEUM 11 



Bequeathed by Mrs. T. Brocklebank : Collection illustrating the 

 portraits of the Royal and reigning Houses of Europe. 



From Mrs. Breun : H. A. J. Breun : MS. Catalogue of Engravings, 

 chiefly engraved portraits. 



By purchase : — 

 Nine mezzotints from the Erdmann collection. 

 Sir Francis Seymour Haden : A collection of over 300 etchings. 



By exchange : — 



The Monogrammist A.G. : The Crucifixion, Line-engraving, printed 

 in the Canon of a Wiirzburg Missal (1491). 



Guercino. Theatrical Performance (Drawing). 



Sir Anthony Van Dyck : Study for the painting of the Due d'Arenberg 

 at Holkham. 



Nicolas Poussin : Holy Family and a landscape, sheet of studies 

 and MS. 



Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities. 

 By donation : — 

 From Mr. David R. Davis through the National Art-Collections 

 Fund, in memory of Captain Leigh J. Davis, 19th London Regiment, 

 killed in action in France, 15th September, 1916 : an Egyptian bronze 

 group of the late period, showing a priest pouring libations on an 

 offering table. 



From the Trustees of " Seven Pillars of Wisdom " : a Persian silver 

 dagger-hilt, with rehefs, showing lions, of about the 8th century B.C. 



From the National Art-CoUections Fund : a limestone slab carved 

 m reUef with a figure of a man -headed sphinx, from Persia. 



From Mr. H. St. John B. Philby, CLE. : nine stones with Himyarite 

 inscriptions, from South Arabia. 



By purchase : — 



Four painted pots from Persia (Tepe Siyalk and Nihawand). 



Two polychrome glass figures, from Egypt. 



A collection of seals, tablets and plaques from Babylonia and two 

 scarabs from Syria. 



By excavation : — 



A collection of pottery and some related flint and metal objects from 

 two expeditions of Sir Aurel Stein in Makran and Southern Persia, during 

 the years 1931-33. 



A collection of pottery and some related stone and metal objects 

 from Sir Aurel Stein's expedition in Fars, supported b}^ the British 

 School of Archaeology in Iraq. 



