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



Department of Prints and Drawings. 



The progress in the arrangement, and the acquisitions received in the Department during 

 the year 1866, are as follows : — 



The arrangement of the works of Giorgio, Adamo and Diana Ghisi has been completed, 

 and the prints have been mounted in three volumes, after undergoing careful reparation. 

 The references to Bartsch have been affixed to each subject. 



The collection of prints after Sir Edwin Landseer has been arranged in four volumes, 

 and a portfolio for the large examples, with references in the manuscript catalogue for 

 finding each subject. 



The Fairholt Collection of prints, etchings, and woodcuts of antiquities and costume has 

 been arranged in eight volumes, and made available for general reference, with the six 

 volumes which had already been arranged and bound before they were bequeathed to the 

 Trustees. 



Four thousand two hundred and fifty-six articles have been entered in the register of 

 purchases and presentations. Ten thousand three hundred and forty-seven articles, includ- 

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



Two thousand two hundred and twenty-four titles have been written for the general 

 catalogue. 



The etchings by Claude Gelee have been re-arranged, mounted, and the rare states 

 recently acquired, incorporated ; the references to Dumesnil having been affixed to each. 



The recently mounted English drawings have been incorporated in that collection, which 

 is now contained in 19 Solander cases instead of 12. 



The engravings of the modern French masters have been arranged in five large guard • 

 books. 



A curious collection of sketches by amateurs, supplied to Gillray and other satirists for 

 the subjects of their caricatures, hns been put in order and mounted. 



One hundred and fifty of the caricatures by George Cruikshank have been mounted and chro- 

 nologically arranged, and the whole collection has been marked off in the manuscript index. 



The whole of the English portiaits which had been registered and stamped previous to 

 August 1866, have been placed alphabetically prior to their being arranged in classes. 



The titles written for the small and original collection of prints, after painters, have 

 been arranged into schools and masters, ready for incorporation with the extensive 

 additions made since 1850. 



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

 year : — 



By Bequest and Donation — 



A series of two hundred and twenty-one unfinished proofs in various states, engraved by 

 Richard Golding ; bequeathed by that artist. 



Proofs of a great many of the woodcuts and etchings executed by the late Frederick W. 

 Fairholt, Esq., for his more important works. Also a collection of piints and notes on 

 costume, amounting in the whole to four thous^and two hundred and fifty articles ; be- 

 queathed by William W. Fairholt, Esq. 



A series of outlines from various early works of art, and thirty original designs by 

 George Cumberland ; presented by Miss Cumberland. 



The important series of drawings made from ancient glass paintings by the late Charles 

 Winston, Esq., presented by Mrs. Winston, his widow. 



By Purchase — 



Italian School: — 

 Drawings. — The study or first sketch for the Garvagh Raphael, in the National 

 Gallery; also specimens by Ghirlandajo, Pietro Perugino, Baccio Bandinelli, Vincenzo da 

 Gimignani, Girolamo Genga, Camillo Pisani, and Canaletto. 



Engravinffs. — Two unique prints by Sandro Botticelli ; another by Jacopo Francia ; and 

 several medallion heads of Popes by Marc Antonio ; other fine specimens by Beccafumi, 

 Agostino Veneziano, the Ghisis, Eneas Vico, Beatrizet, Caragho and Agostino Carracci. 



Fine early undescnbed woodcuts, the designs of some of them drawn on the blocks by 

 Titian. 



German School: — 

 Drawings.^— Some fine specimens by Sir Peter Lely. 



Engravings. — A very fine block -print of St. George slaying the Dragon, unique, and of 

 about the date of 1450. St. Michel in full armour and 8t. Mark with the Lion, two rare 

 examples by IE. ^., the Master of 1466 ; also specimens by Franz von Bocholt, Israel van 

 Meckenen, Hans Baldung Grien, Hans Brosamer, Jakob Binck, Melchior Lorch, Jost 

 Amman, and Wenceslaus Hollan 



Dutch and Flemish Schools : — 

 Engravings. — By Alart Claessen, Suyderhoof, Jan Muller, J. de Gheyn, Anto:iy and 

 Jerome Wierix, W, J. Delff, and Paul Pontius. 



Eichin-is. 



