ACCOUNTS, ESTIMATES, &C, OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. SQ 



Department of Prints and Drawings. 



The following has been the progress in the department in the year 1863. 



The engravings of Agostino Veneziano and of Marco da Ravenna have been arranged 

 in three volumes, and the references to the "Peintre Graveur,"of Bartsch, attached to each. 

 Catslogues have also been compiled, and fair copies made. 



Five volumes of the etchings of Thomas Hills have been arranged. 



Thirteen hundred and seventy-three engravings from the designs and pictures of the 

 Flemish painters have been arranged preparatory to their being mounted and bound in 

 volumes. 



One thousand and twenty-one portraits of the English series have been placed in periods 

 and classes, and the whole of them marked off in the catalogues of Granger and 

 Brnmley. 



Upwards of one thousand portraits of the English series of persons living during the 

 present century have been placed alphabetically, prior to being arranged in classes. 



Three hundred and sixty-eight drawings have been mounted; 242 of which are placed 

 on sunk mounts in order to secure the surface from injury. 



Five thousand six hundred and ninety-seven articles have been entered in the register of 

 purchases and presentations. Six thousand one hundred and ninety-seven articles have 

 had the register stamp affixed to them, which number includes 500 of those registered, but 

 not stamped, in 1862. Two thousand five hundred and thiity-eight engravings, inserted as 

 illustrations in books, have also had the register stamp affixed to them. 



A new and much enlarged alphabetical Index has been compiled, containing the names 

 of all the artists by or after whom there are specimens in the several collections. 



Two thousand three hundred and ninety -two slips have been written for the new general 

 catalogue of prints in tlie collection. 



The following are some of the more important acquisitions made during the past year : — 



Italian School: — 

 Drawings. — Specimens by Parmigianino, Rosso, and ZuccherelH. 



Engravings. — A most interesting undescribed portrait of Lodovico Gonzaga, Marquis of 

 Mantua, and of his wife Barbara, daughter of John Elector of Brandenburg. The style of 

 execution approximates very closely to that of Andrea Montegna, and may possibly be by 

 him, the Marquis having been his patron. 



Specimens by Benedetta Montagna, Giovanni da Brescia, Marcantonio, Agostino 

 Veneziano, Caraglio, the Ghisis, Martin Rota, and Nelli. 



Fine proofs of the modern engravers, Gandolfi, Anderloni, Longhi, Perfetti, Fiorini, and 

 Bisi. 



German School: — 

 Drawings.— By Holbein, G. Pencz, and Hollar. 



Engravings.— By Altdorfer, Aldegrever, Binck, Lautensach, M. Lorch, Boxbineen. 

 and Zunt. ^ ' 



Etchings.— By Hollar, Ridinger, Dietrich, J. H. Eamberg, G. Bodmer, L. E.Grimm, 

 C. F. Hcmzemann, Meyerheim, Wegner, and Valerio. A fine and nearly complete set of 

 works of Daniel Chodowiecki, in various states, many of them proofs, amounting in number 

 to 2,473. ^ 



Dutch and Flemish Schools : — 



Drawings. — A Portrait of Prince Rupert, life size, in black chalk, by Wallerent 

 Vaillant, to whom the Prince made known the art of engraving in mezzotint. Also, 

 specimens by Peter Coeck, Francis Floris, H. Goltzius., Vander Meulen, W. Vande Velde, 

 jun., and L. Overbeck. 



Etchings. — By F. Hogenberg, Waterloo, Stoop, and P. Nolpe. 



Engravings.— By A. and J. Wierx, C. Passe, R. Sadler, C. Collaert, J. Matham, 

 C. Visscher, Suyderhoef, Blooteling, and Van Dalen. 



French School ; — 



Engravings.— By Duvet, Woeiriot, E. de Laulne, Edelinck, Dievet, Chereau, Mandel, 

 and Forster. 



Etchings. — By Paul Huet, L. Marvy, and Calame. 



Lithographs.— By H. Vernet, Bellange,1 Roqueplan, Gericault, RofFet, and De la Croix. 

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