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



masters have been arranged in their respective schools preparatory to their being bound in 

 volumes. 



One hundred and eighty drawings have been mounted, sixty-four of which are on sunk 

 mounts, in order to secure the surface from injury by friction. 



Six thousand six hundred and ninety-three articles have been inserted in the register of 

 purchases and presentations, and the register mark has been affixed to nine thousand two 

 hundred and twcnty-eijiht, which includes the illustrations to books. 



Three thousand one hundred and fiur slips have been written for the general catalogue 

 of prints in the Collection. 



Several important acquisitions have been made during the year : — 



Italian School: — 



A curious early Florentirie engraving uf the 15th century, representing the Deluge. Un- 

 described specimens by Marcello Fogolino, Benedetto Montagna, and Marcsntonio, by 

 Francia, Agostino Ver.eziano, N. Beatrici, J^lneas Vico, G. Ghisi, Annibale Caracci, 

 Raphael Morghen, Longhi, and Toschi. 



Etchings, by Parmegianino, Tiepolo, and Pinelli. 



German School: — 

 An undescribed engraving of the Death of Absalom, by the IMaster of the Banderolles. 

 Eighty-seven of the series of wood cuts by Hans Burgmair, described by Bartsch, vol. vii., 

 p. 240, No. 82, " Les Images des Saints et Saintes issus de la famille de I'Empereur 

 Maxim ilien I." The water mark of the paper on which they are printed is similar to that 

 found in the earliest issue of the -wood cuts of Albert Driver, viz., a high crown surmounted 

 by a cross. The first edition of the work consists of 121 subjects, but the blocks of Saint 

 Wanden and Si. Aldedrude having been lost, the edition printed at Vienna, in 1799, con- 

 tains only 119. Fortunately the impressions from the two missing blocks are in the pre- 

 sent copy. There is reason for believing this to be an earlier issue than either of the two 

 copies in the Imperial Library of Vienna. "Christ and the Apostles," a set of 13 engravings, 

 by Francis Aspruck, published at Augsburg, in 1601. The execution and breadth of 

 effect seen in them, so closely resembles that produced by Mezzotint, as to induce a behef 

 that these plates may have given rise to the practice of that branch of engraving, by Count 

 Siegen, some 40 years afterwards. They are of the greatest rarity. 



Dutch and Flemish Schools : — 



Drawings. — By De Gheyn, Terburg, Jordeans, and Van A ken. 



Engravings. — By H. Goltzius, De Gheyn, Suyderhoef, John Visscher, and Van Scuppen. 



Etchings. — By Bout, De Viieger, and Roddermont. 



French School :■ — 

 Drawings. — By Janet, Sebastian Bourdon, Watteau, Fragonard, Choffard, and Du 

 Plessis Bertaux. 



Etchings. — By Flamen, De Marcenay, V. Adam, Boret, Bracquemond, Corot, Daumier, 

 Eug. de la Croix, Daubigny, L. Flameng, Martinet, Meryon, &c. 



Engravings. — By De Leu, Edelinck, Claude Mellan Huret, Dupont, Martinet, &c. 



English School : — 

 Drawings. — A series of }<2 drawings in water colour, by W. Alexander, of the Manners 

 and Cnsloms of the Chinese. Specimens by Samuel Scotf, Paul Sandby, Loutherbourg, 

 Rigaud, O'Neil of Biistol, Constable, Wilkie, Andrew Wilson, and F. O. Finch. 



Etchiiigs.—By Sawrey, Gilpin, Bretherton, Crome, Davey, Sherlock, H. W. Williams, 

 Prout, Edwin Landseer, Burnet, Whistler. Upwards of 2,000 have been added to the 

 works of George Cruikshank. 



Engravings. — By J. Heath, Golding, Doo, and Chapman. 



Considerable additions have been made to the Collection of English portraits. 



W. Hookham Carpenter. 



Note. — The second vobime of the Cuneiform In^^criptions of Western Asia, containing 70 

 plates is now completed and indexed, and the copies will be distributed as soon as they are 

 bound. 



British Museum, A. Panizzi, 



l6 April 1866. Principal Librarian. 



