l8 ACCOUNTS, ESTIMATES, &C. OF BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Upwards of 300 of the works of the old German Masters have been acquired and inserted 

 in their places in the Collection, and the reference to the Peintre Graveur of Eartsch 

 attached to each. 



A new Alphabetical Catalogue of the Drawings by the Masters of the Dutch and Flemish 

 Schools has been compiled, and the fair transcript of it has been proceeded with so far as to 

 the end of the letter O. 



The Davy Collection of Rubbings from Monumental Brasses in the county of Sufiblk, 

 has been arranged according to the hundred in which the church is situated. 



A series of Labels have been stamped with a letter and a number, which have been placed 

 on the backs of the books in the Print Room. 



Six thousand seven hundred and sixty-one articles have been entered in the Register 

 of Purchases and Presentations ; the whole of them have been stamped, and the register- 

 mark affixed. 



The most important additions to the Collections are — 



Italian School. — Drawings by Pietro Perugino, Pellegrino da Modena, Parmio^ianino, 

 Baroccio, MeidoUa, Francesco Torbido, Albani, and Mola. 



Engravings by D. Campagnola, Nic : da Modena, Marco da Ravenna, Agostino Veneziano, 

 Bat. Franco, Bettelini, Fontana, Marchetti, and Perfetti. Engravings from the Works of 

 Fra Angelico, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangiolo Buonaroti, Raff'aelle, Bandinelli, Mazzolini, 

 Garafolo, and Delia Robbia. 



German School. — Drawings by J.Walch, a pupil of Wohlgemuth, Albert Durer, Holbein, 

 H. S. Beham, and G. Pencz. A most curious impression of the Virgin and Child, by 

 the Master of 1466, before the insertion of the date: the only impression known with 

 the date is in the British Museum, having been copied by Strutt for his Dictionary of 

 Engravers. Large additions to the Works of Altdorfer, Aldegrever, Amman, the Beham's, 

 Bink, Brosamer, Griin, Hirschvogel, Krug, and Pencz. Of the more modern School, to 

 the Works of Begas, Bendemann, Cornelius, Kaulbach, Krigar, Klihler, Miicke, Carl Miil- 

 ler, Neureuther, Overbeck, Schnorr, E. Steinla, and Veit. A few fine Proofs by Wille, one 

 of" La Tricoteuse Hollandaise." 



Dutch and Flemish Schools, — Drawings by Lucas Van Leyden, M. Hemskerk, P. Koeck, 

 Susterman, H. Goltzius, Van Battam, P. Boel, D. Maas, Schouman, and Adrian Van de 

 Velde, Curious early Flemish Prints from the Delbecq Collection ; specimens bj' Alart 

 de Hamell, and Dirk van Staren ; fine impressions of the Works of H. Goltzius, J. MuUer, 

 Saenredam, Van Schuppen, Suyderhoef, and J. Visscher. Etchings by Rembrandt, by 

 Livens, the Heads of Vondel and South, in the first state, the latter not known to Bartsch nor 

 Claussin. Undescribed Etchings by Stoop, one of them a curious Plan of Lisbon and the 

 Tagus, of which no second impression is known. 



French School. — Drawings by Gaspar Poussin, Le Prince, J, G. Wille. Etchings by 

 Callot, Bourdon, Brebiette, DuHos, Dumont, Oudry, Vernet, Le Prince, and a Collection of 

 the Works of Boisseux. Engravings by Fornaseriis (or Fournier), Drevet, Edelinck, Lefevre, 

 and Bridoux. 



English School. — Fine Proofs of the Works of Strange, WooUett and Sharpe, Doo, 

 C. Lewis, T. Landseer, Stocks, Watt, Wallis, and Willmore. Engravings from the Works of 

 Dyce, Eastlake, Leshe, Landseer, Maclise, Reynolds, Stanfield, Stothard, Turner, Webster, 

 and West. Etchings by O'Connor, Crome, G. Cruickshanks, Geekie, 13, Landseer, J. T. 

 Smith, and Loutherbourg. 



Collections made by the late Mr. G. Davy to illustrate the History of Suffolk, consisting 

 of Views, Rubbings from Monumental Brasses and Portraits, to the number of 2,000. 



British Museum,"! Henry Ellis, 



8 April 1864. J Principal Librarian, 



