12 ACCOUNTS, &C. OF BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Also in the eight volumes of Rembrandt's Etchings, setting forth the several states of 

 each Print possessed by the Museum, as also the references to their numbers in the Cata- 

 logues of Gersaint, Daulby, Bartsch, De Claussin and Wilson. 



Some progress has been made in the Catalogue of Rembrandt's Etchings. 



A complete Index has been drawn up (stating the Designer and Engraver of each Print) 

 of the Maps, Plans, Views and Portraits contained in the fourteen volumes of the Illus- 

 trated Copy of Pennant's Account of London. 



The whole of the articles in the Banks Collection, consisting of Prints, Tickets, Cards, 

 Cuttings from Newspapers, &c., amounting to upwards of Nineteen thousand, have been 

 stamped. 



The Registers of purchasers and presentations are made up to the end of 1848. 



The most important acquisitions made during the year, are — 



Italian School. — Drawings, by Perino del Vaga, Parmegiano and Domenico Campagnola. 



Engravings from the works of Giotti, Taddeo Gaddi, Masaccio, Fra Angelico, Masolino, 

 Domenico Ghirlandaio, and Pinturicchio. 



An impression of Marc Antonio's Engraving, from the design of Bandinelli, of the Mar- 

 tyrdom of St. Lawrence, in the first state ; also an unfinisded state of his print of the figure 

 from Michael Angelo's Cartoon of Pisa. 



A collection of the Engravings of Toschi, containing impressions of all his works in their 

 progressive states. 



German School. — Drawings by Hans Holbein and Weirinx. 



Engravings by the Master of 1466, Israel von Mechen, the Masters of the Monograms 

 S) and ^ .J Sec. Mezzotintos by Count Siegen and Furstemberg. 



Flemish and Dutch Schools. — Drawings by Rembrandt, Eckhout and Vinkenboom. An 

 extensive and valuable addition to the Etchings of Rembrandt, selected from the Aylesford 

 Collection, many of them in the rarest states, and some few unique, rendering the Collection 

 of this Artist's Works in the Museum equal to any in Europe. 



English School. — Drawings by Laroon, Stothard, Lawrence, Carter and Coney. 



A small Collection, comprising some of the rarest Portraits of the English series, by 

 Elstracke, Simon Pass, Faithorne, &c. 



Additions have also been made to the works of Prince Rupert, Hollar, Hogarth, Barry, 

 and Turner. 



British Museum, 1 j porshall, Secretary. 



10 February 1849. J ' ^ 



