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



Two thousand one hundred and six titles have been prepared for the Slade Collection of 

 prints. 



Three thousand seven hundred and thirty-one titles have been prepared for the prints 

 after English masters. 



Nine hundred and forty titles have been prepared for the prints after foreign masters. 



Four thousand two hundred and eighty-four titles have been prepared for the catalogue 

 of English portraits. 



Four hundred and ninety-five titles have been prepared for the works of English etchers, 

 with the names of the artists, and the dates of their births and deaths duly ascertained and 

 added thereto. 



Three thousand six hundred and one titles have been prepared for the catalogue of 



foreign portraits. 



Ten thousand three hundred and seventy-six articles have been entered in the register 

 of purchases and presentations. 



Eleven thousand five hundred and eighty-five articles have been stamped and inscribed 

 with the register mark. 



The following are among the most important acquisitions of the past year : — 



By Bequest and Donation — 



The extensive and valuable collection of engravings made by the late Felix Slade, Esq. 



Since the Cracherode bequest, which formed the nucleus of the British Museum col- 

 lections, no acquisition of the kind approaches it in rare and choice specimens of etchings 

 and en<^ravings, wherein nearly every artist of distinction is represented. The collection 



comprises: — -^-r. ■,-,. ^ • n ■, o i ii--r.iT- 



Eare specimens of impressions from Nielh and prmts ot the bchooi ot Baidmi. 



Fine examples of some of the best productions of Andrea Mantegna, Zoan Andrea 

 Vavassori, Girolamo Mocetto, Giovanni Battista del Porto, Jean Duvet, Marc Antonio, 

 with his scholars and followers, the master of the year 1466 ; Martin _ Schongauer, Israel 

 van Meckenen, Albert Diirer, Lucas van Leyden, Hans Burgmair, Lucas Cranach, 

 Matheus Zazinger, the Behams, Rembrandt, Vandyck, Adrian Ostade, Paul Potter, 

 Karl du Jardin, 'jan B<^th, JST. Berghem, Agostino Caracci, Wenceslaus Hollar, Corneliua 

 Visscher, Crispin and Simon de Passe, S. a Bolswert, Houbraken, L. Vorsterman, Jacques 

 Callot, Claude Mellan, Nanteuil, George Wille, Faithorne, Hogarth, L. A. B. Desnoyers, 

 F. Forster, Sir R. Strange, William WooUett, Porporati, Pefetti, Pietro Anderloni, Raphael 

 Moro-hen, Giuseppe Longhi, Garavaglio, and others. Also some rare English portraits and 

 book-illustrations. Bequeathed by the late Felix Slade, Esq. 



A rare collection of fine drawings and etchings by James Barry, R. A., formed by Mr. 

 Haviland Burke, nephew of the painters celebrated patron, Edmund Burke. Also prmts 

 after this artist, and his own portrait etched by himself Presented by J. H. Anderdon, Esq. 



Furthermore, an interesting collection consisting of 128 examples of the works of those 

 eminent Dutch engravers, the Passe family. Also presented by J. H. Anderdon, Esq. 



By Purchase — 



Italian School: — 

 Draioi7igs.—A sketch of the studio of Baccio Bandinelli, by that painter, which was after- 

 wards engraved by Eneas Vico. _ r>i • f i tt- i 

 Two young men seated, by Giorgione. From the Lawrence, Conmgham and Hippesley 



Cupid embracing an eagle, by Titian. From the Richardson, West, Lawrence, Coning- 



ham and Hippesley Collections. . ' . o. t '-pi i +i tt 



Two London vieM^s, by Antonio Canaletto : one of bt. James s Park and the Horse 

 Guards, the other of Westminster Bridge from the river. 



Some by Bartolomeo Pinelll. 



Engravings.— Kn early and brilliant impression of the Bacchanalian Frieze by Marc 

 Antonio. The rarest of the two plates. , t at '^. t m • Tr . 



Specimens by Francesco Francia, Agostmo Veneziano,Le Maitre an de, Marius Kartarus, 

 Domenico Beccafumi, Hugo da Carpi, Bartolomeo Coriolano and Andrea Andreani. 



Braun's carbon prints from the foreign collections of drawings by i ra Bartolomeo, 

 Raphael, Michael Angelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Correggio and Titian. 



German School: — • 



Drawings.— Some by S. H. Grimm and F. Kobel. 



Engravings and Etchings.- A curious and remarkable collection of small prints of the 

 end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, 189 m JJ^^mber. 



Many of these engravings, particularly specimens by Franz van Bocholt and Israel van 

 Meckenen, werequite unknown andundescribedbeforetheappearance mNaumann s"Archiv 

 fur die Zeichnenden Klinste" of Dr. Andresen's notes written from the prints in question. 



Nearly one hundred prints have been added to the collection of the works of Wenceslaus 

 Hollar. Some of these are of extreme rarity. 



An unique print of St. George slaying the Dragon, by the master of the year 1488. 



Some by Lucas Cranach, Virgil Solis, Urs Graf, J. de Gheyn, &c. 



An unique proof of the St. John, by C. F. Muller, and another of the Madonna di 

 San Sisto by the same artist. , 



