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Fourteen Drawings by the old Masters have been photographed by Mr. Fenton. 

 Seventeen hundred and twenty Photographs taken from Drawings by the old Masters 

 have had the Museum stamp impressed on them prior to being issued for sale. 

 The most important additions to the Department have been — 



Italian School. — A large and fine illumination of the fourteenth century, of Christ and his 



Disciples. 



Drawings by Pesellino, Leonardo da Vinci, Fra Bartolommeo, Parmigianino, Salviati, 

 Tintoretto, G. Vasari, Sansovino, Francesco Vanni, Guido Reni, Albano, and others. Also 

 the original Drawings made by Gozzini for the " Moiiumenti Sepolcrali della Toscana." 



Engravings. An undescribed Print by Baldini. The Virgin and Child in the first state, 

 and Hercules and the Hydra, by Andrea Mantegna. St. John the Baptist, and the right 

 hand portion of the composition representing a Battle, on which is inscribed *' Mocetus, 

 1496," (the left hand portion, having on it the Christian name " Hieronimus," is in the 

 Imperial Collection in Vienna, and is described by Bartsch,) by Girolamo Mocetto. 

 Formerly in Mr. Wilson's Collection. Specimens by Nicoletto di Modena, J. A. de 

 Brescia, Buonincontro da Reggio, Marc' Antonio, The Master of the Die, Nic. Beatrici, 

 Eneas Vico, The Ghisi's Reverdinus, &c. 



German School. — Several curious undescribed Woodcuts of the early portion of the 

 fifteenth century. An undescribed Print of the Nativity, by the Master of 1466. Speci- 

 mens of the works of Bocholt, Schongauer, Israel von Mecken, M. Zagel, Burgmair, Lucas 

 Cranach, Schaufelein, Springinklee, Lautensack, Hirschvogel, Josse Amman, &c. Etchings 

 by Bartsch, Brand, Rechberger, Rehberg, Reinhold, and VittinghofF. 



Most valuable additions have been made to the Collection of Hollar's works. 



Dutch and Flemish Schools. — Drawings by Lucas van Leyden, Roland Savery, Persellis, 

 A. Van Dyck, Waterloo, Jac. Bray, Eeckhout, Shngelandt, Le Ducq, W. ScheUincks, 

 Hulsvvit, and Troost. 



Etchings by Rembrandt, Van Vliet, A. Van Dyck, Honthorst, Fruytiers, De Wael, 

 Tempesta, &c. Engravings by H. Goltzius, Saenredam, J. Matham, J. MuUer, Suyderhoef, 

 C. Visscher, Paul Pontius, J. Thomas, and Claessens, 



French School. — Drawings by DuMoustier, Lancret, and Boucher. Etchings by Claude, 

 S. Bourdon, Caylus, Verdier, Boissieu, and Blery. Engravings by Woeiriot, Boissarot, 

 Fournier Jacquart, Rabel, Berwic, Desnoyers, Masquellier, and others. 



English School. — Drawings by Ozias Humphrey, Wheatley, Blake, Rowlandson, Edridge, 

 Wilkie, Stothard, Constable, and Callcott. Etchings by D. Allen, Edwards, Paul Sandby, 

 Ibbotson, Fuseli, Howitt, Callcott, Cresvvick, Cope, George Cruickshank, Horse'ey, Red- 

 grave, Frederick Taylor, and Thomas Webster. Engiavings, fine proofs, by Raimbach, 

 Allen, Bacon, Doo, Finden, Greatbach, IMiller, J. Pye, Charles Rolls, Stocks, Wallis, and 

 Willmore. 



Interesting additions have been made to the series of English Portraits, and to the 

 Satirical Prints connected with the history of the country. 



A fine Collection of Engravers' Proofs of Woodcuts, by the late Samuel Wilhams, 273 in 

 pumber; presented by the Sons of the artist. 



W. H. Carpenter. 



.Note. — The work of copying and lithographing the Cuneiform Inscriptions was commenced 

 under Sir Henry Rawlinson's superintendence in July 1856 ; the result up to 10 June 1857 has been 

 ^s follows: — 



Six Inscriptions forming 29 sheets, and 2,073 lines completed, and 500 copies struck off. 

 Nine Inscriptions forming 18 sheets, and 1,345 lines in a forward state of progress. It is 



hoped that 50 sheets will be completed by the end of July 1 857, when they will be bound 



up in a volume, and published. 



Pritish Museum,! A. Panizzi, 



10 June 1857. J Principal Librarian. 



105 — Sess. 2. 



