ACCOUNTS, ESTIMATES, &C. OK THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 2^ 



Dutch and Flemish Schools : — 



Drawings by Lucas van Leyden, Rembrandt, Livens, Zeeman, Swanevelt, De Grave, 

 Van Stry, Schotel, Memling, Rubens, Van Dyck, Jordaens, Honlhorst, Peter de Vos, and 

 Schellinks. 



Etchings and Engravings by Wierx, Saenredam, Bolswert, Rembrandt, P. Noipe, and 

 P. de Frey. 



French School ; — 

 Draivings by Granthomme, Courtois, Flamen, Blanchard, Rigaud, Watteau, Greuze, and 

 H. Robert. 



Etchings and Engravings by Callot, C. Mellan, Stella, Rousseau, Masse, Pesne, 

 M. A. Corneille, J. B. Corneille, Le Prince, Denon, and Lefevre. 



Spanish School : — 

 Etchings and Engravings by Coello, Goya (Las Meninos), &c. 



English School : — 



Drawings by Hognrth, VV. Hoare, West (Skeich for the Battle of La Hogue), Rigaud, 

 J. Jackson, Flaxman, Wilkie, Leslie, and Buckler. 



Engravings by Hognrth (proof of his own Portrait vviih the Dog ; Evening from the 

 four times of tiie day befi)re the introduction of tlie girl • Ticket for Spiller's benefit, proof 

 and print). Strange, Woollett, &c.; also an extensive collection from the paintings of the 

 masters of the last and present centuries. 



Etchings by George and John Smith, Paul Sandby, Wheatly, Rowlandson, Howitt, 

 W. H. Pyne, Hakewill, Cruikshank, Herbert, Creswick, Horsley, Redgrave, Town send, 

 J. Bell, and T. Landseer. 



Many portraits have been added to the English series, several of thera being private 

 plates. 



W. H. Carpenter. 



Note. — The first volume of the " Selection from the Historical Inscriptions of Chaldsea, 

 Assyria, and Babylonia," is ready for pubhcation. 



The work of copying and lithographing the Cuneiform Inscriptions has been continued 

 during the past year. The result, up to the 18th March 1861, is reported to be as 

 follows : — 



Four sheets of Syllabaries have been printed. 



Two sheets of the Cyprus Stone, two double sheets of the Behistun Inscription, two 

 sheets of the Annals of Sennacherib, from the Koyunjik Bulls, one sheet of the Bavian 

 Inscription, and twenty-six sheets of miscellaneous tablets, have been copied on stone, 

 and are ready for final revision, previous to their being printed. 



Thirty sheets of miscellaneous tablets have been copied and traced. 



British Museum,"! A. Panizzi, 



3 May 1861. j Principal Librarian. 



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