12 ACCOUNTS, &C. OF BRITISH MUSEUM. 



A large and important Collection of Coins formed in India by Mr. Edward Thomas, con- 

 taining many choice specimens of the rarer Kings of Bactria, Antialcides, ApoUodotus, 

 Strato, Spalyrius ; several of Indo-Scythian Kings ; Kings of Cabul and Ghusnee ; and 

 also several of the Afghan series, and of the Moguls of Delhi. 



A small Collection of very fine modern Nepaulese Coins, both gold and silver, presented 

 by Her Majesty. 



A Japanese Com, presented by the King of the Sandwich Islands. 



A very fine dated Coin of Alexander Severus, struck at Anthedon, in Judaea. 



A fine gold Coin, new type, of the Emperor Severus. 



A fine brass medallion of Commodus. 



Two very rare British gold Coins, having upon them the name TIN. 



One hundred and twenty-two pennies of Ethelred II. and Canute, found in the North of 

 Europe. 



A gold half hardi of Richard II. ; probably unique. 



Thirty counterfeit sterlings, struck in Flanders, part of a larger number discovered near 

 Kirkcudbright ; presented by the Earl of Selkirk. 



Department of Prints and Drawings. 



A large portion of the more recently acquired German Prints, by Masters Hving in the 

 15th century, have been mounted, and a Descriptive Catalogue is preparing of all such as 

 are not mentioned by Bartsch. 



The Works of Burgkmair, Lucas Cranach, Hans Baldung Grein, Ulrich Pilgrim, Ludwig 

 Krug, and le Maitre a I'Ecrevisse, have been arranged in Five Volumes. 



The Portraits in the illustrated copies of Lord Clarendon's Life, his History of the Rebel- 

 lion, and Whitelock's Memorials, amounting to more than 2,000 in number, have been 

 marked off in the interleaved copy of Bromley's Catalogue of engraved British Portraits ; 

 as have also upwards of 1,000 of the Portraits acquired during the present year, and all 

 such as are not named in that work have been inserted. 



Alphabetical Catalogues of the Portraits engraved by Hollar, also of the Engravings 

 executed from the Works of Sir Thomas Lawrence, have been drawn up. 



Slips have been written of the whole of the Titles in the Collection of Catalogues of 

 Print Sales, presented to the Print Room by William Smith, Esq., with the view of forming 

 a Chronological Index of them, as also an Alphabetical Index of names where given, and 

 these have been proceeded with from the year 1716 up to November 1824. 



The Catalogue of Books in the Print Room has been completed. 



The Registers of Purchases and Presentations are made up to the end of the year 1850. 



The most important additions made to the Collections during the year, have been — 



Italian School. — An Engraving of a female head by Lionardo da Vinci, much finer in 

 character and more effective in execution than the head attributed to that Master by 

 Mr. Ottley, which was formerly in the Sykes and Wilson Collections, and is now in the 

 British Museum. Fine specimens by Marc Antonio, Nicolo Beatrice, Giulio Bonasone and 

 Agostino Carracci. Etchings by Agostino Mitelli, Girolamo Mattioh, and Luca Giordano. 

 Engravings from the Works of Cimabue, Giotto, BufFalmacco, Taddeo Gaddi, Gentile 

 Fabriano, Fra Angelico, and Vittore Carpaccio. 



German School. — Drawings by Hans Holbein, Pencz and Hollar. An interesting series 

 of 49 Prints, illustrating the Life of Christ, by an Artist of the 15th century, using the 

 monogram S. A., not known to Bartsch ; rare specimens by Le Maitie de 1480, Le Maitre 

 a la Navette, Le Maitre aux Banderolles, Israel von Mecken, and many of the little Masters. 

 Tiiree hundred and fifty Prints have been added to the Collection of Hollar's Works. 



Flemish School. — Drawings by Van Dyck, Teniers and Meyeringh, an unique etching 

 of a man's head by P. Van Slingelandt, from the Van Leyden and Beckford Collections. 

 Fine Specimens of the Engravings of Goltzius, C. Passe, Van Dalen, Houbraken, &c. An 

 extensive Collection of Engravings from the Pictures of Teniers. 



Spanish School. — Drawings by CI. Coello, Murillo, Ribalta, Ribera, Juan de Toledo, 

 Velasquez and Goya, 



French School. — Drawings by Le Moine, Natoire and Parrocel. An extensive Collection 

 of Engravings from the Works of the Artists forminig the School of Fontainbleau. Etchings 

 by Count Caylus, de Marcenay, and Duplessis Bertaux. 



English School. — Drawings by F. Place, Paul Sandby, Gilpin, Tresham, Edridge, 

 Thurston, Ottley, Hills and MuUer. 



Some of the rarest of the Hogarth series, viz., an unique impression of the Election 

 Entertainment from the Baker and Wilson Collections, Hogarth's Card of Address, the 

 Great Seal of England, &c. Choice Proofs of the Engravings of Woollett, Burnet, Samuel 

 Cousins, Doo, W. Finden, Gibbon, Golding, Goodall, T. Landseer, Le Keux, J. Pye, J. H. 

 Robinson, Watt, Willmore, &c. 



Twelve hundred Portraits, principally of the English series, have been added to the 

 Collection, some of them of great rarity ; also a few curious Broadsides and Caricatures. 



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