24 accounts/ ESTIMATES, &C. OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Danish School: — 

 A collection of Etchings by painters of the present century. 



Dutch and Flemish Schools : — 



Drawings by Rembrandt, Metzu, van Diest, V. Klotts, Waterloo, Rademaker, Rubens, 

 Snyders, and Breughel. 



Etchings by A. Ostade, Van Goyen, Claessens, Honthorst, Cornelius Schut, and Fle- 

 mt-lle. 



Engravings by H. Goltzius, some remarkably fine specimens by A. and J. Wierx, J. Viss- 

 cher, Suyderhoef, Bloetehng, Claessens, and Vinkeles. 



French School: — 

 Drawings. — An interesting collection of Crayon Portraits by Francis Clouet and Daniel 

 Du Monstier, of eminent characters in the courts of Henry II. and of Louis XIII. and XIV. ; 

 specimens by Watteau, Lancret, Boucher, Chatelain, Le Prince, and Wicar. 



Etchings by Dom. Barri^re, Boisseux, Le Prince, Duplessi, Bertaux, and Blery. 

 Engravings by J. C. Le Blond, Bervic, Tardieu, Laurent, Lignon, Godefroy, Massard, 

 Ardouin, Daudet, and Richomme. 



English School: — 



Two most interesting Note-books, used by Sir Joshua Reynolds during his sojourn in 

 Iiaiy, filled with Sketches and comments on the principal pictures seen by him in the course 

 of his journey. 



Drawings by Fr. Barlow, M. Rysbrack, Francis Hayman (the original designs for " Don 

 Quixote "), Wilson, Mortimer, Worlidge, F. Swaine, M. A. Rooker, Loutherbourg, Alex- 

 ander, Dayes, Hearn, Edridge, Payne, Burney, Cotman, Stothard, Bonington, Wilkie, 

 Varley, Mackenzie, Uwins, Havell, F. C. Lewis, and C. R. Leslie. 



Etchings by R. Gaywood, F. Place, J. English, R. Slreater, Worlidge, Paul Sandby, 

 Barry, Blake, Edwards, Wilkie, an important collection of the works oF Cotman, and also 

 of George Cruikshank. 



Engravings by Heath, Scott, and Raiiiibach, and a collection of proofs of the Illustrations 

 to the Atlas Pocket Book, engraved from the designs of Stothard. 



The following important bequest has been made to the Department of Prints and Draw- 

 ings by the late Ellis Ellis, Esq. of Bath : — 



Les Lettres de Madame de S^vigne, illustrated by 9,316 Portraits, Views, Fac-similes> 

 &c. The work is in 38 4to. volumes, and half-bound in morocco. 



12 fine Drawings by Thomas Hearne, have been presented by John Henderson, Esq., 

 Montague- place, Russell-square. 



W. a. Carpenter. 



Note. — The work of copying and lithographing the Cuneiform Inscriptions of Assyria, has 

 been continued during the past year. The result, up to the 16th March 1860, is reported 

 to be as follows : — 



Four sheets of Vocabularies, or Syllabaries, have been prepared from the several frag- 

 ments in the Museum, and the three large Inscriptions at Bavian have been collated. 

 These are all copied on stone, and are ready for final revision previous to their being printed. 



The Annals of Sennacherib have been copied on stone. 



The Cylinder of Ashur-bani-pal, including many detached fragments, has been copied. 



A reduced fac-simile of the great Inscription of Behistun is in progress. 



British Museum,"! A. Panizzi, 



15 May 1860. J Principal Librarian. 



