ACCOUNTS, &C. OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. O] 



have been arranged in thirteen cases. The plan affords the student an advantage, hitherto 

 unattainable, of comparing at the same time all the best works of the masters enumerated. 



A portion of the works of the Brothers Wierix, comprising 114 prints, have been 

 arranged and mounted, with the references to Alvin's Catalogue affixed to each print. 



The large collection of unmounted prints after Rubens have been put in order according 

 to Basan's Catalogue, and the references affixed to each. 



Jacques Christophe le Blond's works have been arranged in a volume. 



The modern French etchings have been arranged in eight volumes, in which sixty-one 

 artists are represented, and among them appear the names of the following eminent men: — 

 Delacroix, Decamps, Flameng, Gerome, Girodet, Tissot, Legros, Meissonier, Scheffer, 

 and Prud'hon. 



The etchings of Charles Jacque have been arranged in a volume, and made 

 available for reference. 



A third volume has been arranged, and added to the works of Eugene Blery. 



The unmounted foreign portraits, Portuguese, Russian, Polish, Danish, Dutch, Flemish, 

 and Oriental, have been sorted and alphabeticallj^ arranged in papers available for reference. 



Three hundred and ninety-eight drawings have been mounted with sunk boards to 

 preserve them from injury by friction. Others have been mounted in the ordinary manner. 



Three thousand six hundred and sixty-one titles have been prepared for the Catalogue 

 of foreign portraits, and the whole of the titles ai-ranged in alphabetical order. 



One thousand seven hundred and thirty-four titles have been prepared for the historical 

 and topographical prints, and those described in Drugulin's Historical Atlas have been 

 marked off. 



One thousand seven hundred and twenty-one titles have been prepared for the Catalogue 

 of English satirical prints. 



Three hundred and sixty-seven titles have been prepared for the English prints in 

 mezzotinto. 



Thirteen thousand two hundred and two articles have been entered in the register 

 of purchases, presentations, and bequests. 



Eleven thousand nine hundred and seventy-six articles have been stamped and inscribed 

 with the register mark. 



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

 By Presentation — 



The annual Catalogues of the " Society of Artists," founded by Hogarth and his con- 

 temporaries, 1760-1791, illustrated with 669 drawings and prints, many of them very rare 

 and curious, enriched with copious notes by Mr. Anderdon. Also Edwards's Anec- 

 dotes of Painters, illustrated with 217 drawings and prints, in a similar manner. Pre- 

 sented by J. H. Anderdon, Esq. 



A collection of nearly 500 proofs of vignettes, printed on India paper from plates 

 engraved by the American Bank Note Company ; also 54 specimens of perfect notes and 

 postage stamps, arranged in a handsomely bound guard-book. Presented by the American 

 Bank Note Company, New York. 



Forty-nine specimens of American Bank Notes issued before or immediately after 

 the War of Independence, inserted in the same volume as the preceding donation. Pre- 

 sented by A. G. Goodall, Esq., Vice President of the American Bank Note Com- 

 pany, New York. 



By Purchase — 



Italian School: — 



Drawinqs. — By Andrea del Sarto, Giovanni Batista Tiepolo, Gaetano Gandolfi, and 

 Theodore Valerio. 



Engravings and Etchings. — Rare specimens by Giovanni Batista del Porto, Andrea 

 Mantegna, llobetta, Giovanni Antonio da Brescia, and the Master of 1515. 



A curious collection of prints, executed at the end of the 16th century, representing 

 various games, and national styles of writing of the period, by Mario Kartaro, 

 Alittanio Gatti, J. A. de Pauli, Batista Parmensis, Lucchino Gargano, and Cesare 

 Capranica. These prints are not found described in any book of reference, and two of 

 the names of engravers are not mentioned at all. 



One of the original series; three suites complete of Volpato's engraved and beautifully 

 coloured copies of the arabesques, &c,, by Raphael, in the Loggie of the Vatican. 



Other examples by M. Benedetto Battini, Nicoletto Beatrici, Pietro Bonato, Nicoletto 

 Casa, Francisco Cecchini, Luigi Fabre Gioacchino Filidoni, G. Girolamo Frezzi, 

 George Batista Ghisi, Antonio Lafreri, Carlo Lasino, G. B. Romero, Horace _ de 

 Santis, Agostino Veneziano, and an artist's proof of Giovanni Fosella's recent production, 

 " La Madonna del Baldacchino." 



German School : — 



Draioiiigs. — By Conrad Gesner. 



Engravings and Etchings. — By Israel von Meckenen, Alart Claessen, Johann Laden- 

 spelder, Frederick Brentel, Virgil Solis, Martin Treu, Ludwig Busingh, Johann 

 Conrad Vermayer, and an artist's proof of " La Belle de Tiziano" by Edward Mandel. 



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