ACCOUNTS, &C. OF BRITISH MUSEUM. 1 I 



The Drawings of the Portraits of Eminent Characters in the Cracherode Collection have 

 been mounted. 



The Works of Lucas van Leyden have, since Mr. Brooks' valuable donation, been 

 re-arranged in two New Volumes. 



Some of the Works of the German Masters, described in the Vlllth Volume of Bartsch, 

 have been arranged in Volumes. 



The Etchings of Rembrandt, selected from the Aylesford Collection, and purchased in 1848, 

 have been inserted in the Volumes of that Artist's Works. 



The English Portraits purchased of Messrs. Smith in 1848, and also those purchased at 

 the Duke of Buckingham's sale, have been arranged in Periods and Classes, and marked 

 off in the interleaved copy of Bromley's Catalogue, and all such as are not described in 

 that work have been inserted. 



The whole of the Moll Collection of Portraits, amounting to upwards of eleven thousand, 

 have been endorsed with the Letter and Number under which they are entered in the 

 General Inventory, preparatory to their alphabetical arrangement, and a Catalogue being 

 made. 



A Descriptive Catalogue has been compiled of the Etchings of Rembrandt, Ferdinand 

 Boll, Livens, and Van Vleit. Catalogues have been drawn up of the Burney Collection of 

 Portraits (principally theatrical), amounting to three thousand eight hundred and thirty; also 

 of the Portraits engraved by Vertue, and others are in progress, of the Collection of 

 Mezzotintos, and of the Books of Prints which are in the Print Room. 



The Registers of Purchases and Presentations are made up to the end of the year 1849. 



The most important additions made to the Collections during the year are — 



Italian School. — An Impression on paper of a fine Niello of St. John the Baptist, described 

 by Duchesne in his " Essai sur les Nielles," page 197, No. 170, and attributed by him to 

 Peregrini. A Series of Outlines from the paintings of Duccio in the Cathedral of Siena, 

 representing the Passion of Christ. Choice proofs of the Engravings of Anderloni, Gara- 

 vaglia, Longhi, Toschi, &c. 



German School. — Specimens by the Master of 1466, Hans Burgmair, Lucas Cranach, 

 Altdorfer, DietterUn, Klein, Wille and Felsing. 



Flemish and Dutch Schools. — Engravings by Lucas van Leyden, Walter van Assen, 

 Crispin de Passe, and Wierinx. Etchings by Berghem, Van Dyck, Livens, &c. 



Spanish School. — Engravings from the Works of Coello, Morales, Murillo, Pereda, 

 Ribera, Velasquez, Zurbaran, &c. 



French School. — Etchings by Claude de Lorraine, Choffard, Cochin, Duplessi Bertaux 

 and Boisseux. Proofs of the Engravings of Beauverlet, Drevet, Le Bas, Desnoyers, Lignon, 

 Massart and Mercuri. 



English School. — Some of the rarest and most interesting Portraits of the English series, 

 curious Broadsides and Satirical Prints relating to the Commonwealth and the Revolution 

 of 1688, to the Pretender and Sir Robert VValpole's Administration, purchased from the 

 Collection of the Duke of Buckingham. 



A Collection of upwards of two thousand two hundred Engravings from the Works of 

 Thomas Stothard, R.A., a large portion of which are choice Engravers' Proofs; they are 

 arranged chronologically in four folio volumes. Proofs of the Works of WooUett, Heath, 

 Schiavonetti, Raimbach, J. Scott, &c. 



The following important Donations have been made to this department in the course of 

 the year : — 



Upwards of one hundred of the Works of Lucas van Leyden, amongst which are "the 

 Great Hagar " and " the Uylenspiegel," both of them of so great rarity as to be wanting 

 in many of the finest collections, rendering the Collection of the Works of this Master in 

 the British Museum one of the finest and most complete that is known. Presented by Henry 

 James Brook, Esq., Clapham-rise. 



An Etching by T. Stoop of the Portrait of Catherine of Braganza, the Queen of 

 Charles IL, in the dress she wore on her arrival in this country. Three other Etchings of 

 the set of Horses by T. Stoop in the first state ; also an Etchmg by C. Bega, in the first 

 state. Presented by J. Heywood Hawkins, Esq., Bignor Park, Sussex. 



Forty-one choice Engravers' Proofs of Turner's Views in England and Wales. The 

 Bruiser by Hogarth, first state, with " The White Lies." Presented by Felix Slade, Esq., 

 Doctors' Commons. 



A View of the Old Bridge at Bridgenorth, a Drawing in Water Colours, by Girtin ; a 

 singularly fine specimen of the Artist's powers. Presented by Chambers Hall, Esq., 

 Jermyn-street, St. James's. 



An Enamel Portrait, set in Gold, of Robert Lee, fifth Earl of Litchfield, by Zincke. 

 Presented by T. Haviland Burke, Esq., Gloucester-place, New- road. 



Three rare early German Prints, and fifteen Etchings by modern German and English 

 Artists. Presented by Ernst Harzen, Esq., Hamburgh. 



A set of Etchings of the Engravings of the Vernon Gallery, so far as published. Presented 

 by T. Carter Hall, Esq., Pall-mall. 



British Museum, \ Henry Ellis, 



23 February 1850.J Principal Librarian. 



