BRITISH MUSEUM 11 



Correspondence of His Imperial Majesty Nasir ul-Din, Shah of Persia 

 from 1848-1896. 



The Divan, or collected poems of Jur'at, one of the most celebrated 

 Hindustani poets, who died in a.d. 1810, copied in a.d. 1825. 



Prints and Drawings. 

 By donation : — 

 From the National Art-Collections Fund : J. A. D. Ingres : Portrait 

 group of Sir John Hay, sixth Baronet, and his sister Mary, 1816. 



From the National Art-Collections Fund : Charles Shannon : Album 

 of ninety- one sheets of studies. 



By purchase : — 

 (Purchased with the aid of a donation from the Friends of the National 

 Libraries) : Ackermann's Costumes of the Indian Army, engraved by 

 J. Harris after H. Martens, 1846. 



Pack of Elizabethan playing-cards, engraved 1590, illustrating the 

 counties of England and Wales. 



By exchange : — 



Five Italian niello-prints of the fifteenth century, unique impressions, 

 from the Sykes collection. 



Anonjrmous fifteenth century Italian engraving : Troilus. 



Pietro Longhi : La Caccia in Valle, sheet of studies. 



Wolf Huber : The Last Judgment, 1510. 



Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities. 

 By donation : — 



From Lord Harlech : a bronze head of a Pharaoh, of the Ptolemaic 

 period. 



From Mr. S. L. Bernstein : an Egyptian stele of the Middle Kingdom. 



From Mr. and Mrs. Alec Rea : an ivory lion, presumably of the 

 predynastic period. 



From the Sudan Government : a fragment of one of the lions in the 

 Museum from Jebel Barkal, Sudan. 



From the Egypt Exploration Society : a collection of antiquities 

 found in excavations at Sesebi in the Sudan. 



From the Secretary of State for India, with the consent of the Indian 

 Government : a Hmestone memorial stone with the cuneiform inscription 

 of Nebuchadnezzar II commonly called the " East India House 

 Inscription." 



From the Secretary of State for Air : 252 negatives and 62 prints of 

 sites in Western Asia and Egypt. 



By purchase : — 

 Three bronze figures of women, from Iraq, and a bronze bar, dating 

 from about 2000 B.C. 



A bronze figure of an emblematic monster, from Iraq. 



