36 ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Department of Feints and Drawings. 



The first volume of the catalogue of satirical prints and drawings describing subjects 

 from circa 1320 to the Revolution of 1688 has been published ; it contains 750 images, 

 and deals with the political and personal satires of the period which at the present time 

 are almost, if not entirely, forgotten ; a large portion of the descriptions are taken from 

 the collection of tracts and broadsides preserved in the Printed Book Department and 

 bear reference to the early reformers, treasons, and secret histories of the time of Elizabeth, 

 James I., the Commonwealth, Charles II., and James II. ; Moral Satires, the Gunpowder 

 Plot, Spanish Armada, Patentees and Monopolists, &c., &c. The second volume is 

 progressing towards completion. 



A translation has been made of Paul Lafert's descriptive catalogue of the etchings of 

 Francesco Goya, and those examples in the dej^artment have been marked off with the 

 references to the register, and arranged in two volumes. 



The works of Robert Nanteuil have been arranged, and placed in a portfolio with 

 references to Dumesnil, in v^diose catalogue each j^rint has been marked off with the 

 inventory or register marks. 



The collection of jn-ints after Jean Baptiste Greuze have been brought together and 

 arranged in a guardbook ; and those after Francois Boucher have been similarly 

 treated. 



Gericault's lithographs have been arranged in two volumes, and marked oiF in Charles 

 Clements' catalogue. 



The last volumes of the Van Dyck heads, forming volumes vii. and viii. of the " Icono- 

 graphie de Vandyck," have been arranged and mounted, with the references to Weber and 

 Szwykowski affixed to each print. Etchings by Danish masters have been arranged in 

 three guardbooks, and the larger examples placed in a portfolio. 



The collection of prints after Richai'd "Wilson have been brought together and arrano-ed 

 in a volume. The Avorks of Francis Hayman have been treated in a similar manner. 



Prints, drawings, and manuscript notes illustrating the catalogues of the " Society of 

 Artists," 1760-1791, have been arranged and mounted in nine royal quarto volumes. 



The collection of prints in mezzotinto, by Charles Turner, have been an-anged in two 

 volumes. 



Mr. Samuel Cousins' works have also been placed in similar volumes, and other 

 mezzotint prints of a very large size. 



The English drawings which have been recently mounted on imperial sized boards have 

 been temporarily arranged in alpabetical order in six solander cases. 



English prints recently acquired have been sorted and incorporated in the Collection, 

 also the historical subjects, after being arranged in chronological order, and likewise 

 the English etchings. 



Three thousand seven hundred and fifty-six titles have been prepared for the Catalogue 

 of foreign portraits. 



Two thousand five hundred and forty titles have been prepared for the Foreign his- 

 torical prints, and those relating to topography of others described in Drugulin's Historical 

 Atlas have been marked off in the Print Room copy of that work. 



Six hundred and forty-two titles have been prepared for the Catalogue of prints after 

 foreign masters. 



Two hundred titles have been prepared for the modern French and German prints. 



Nine hundred and ninety-seven titles have been prepared for the Catalogue of the 

 English satirical prints, also 120 for the English prints iu mezzotinto. 



One thousand eight hundred and forty-three have been prepared for the prints after 

 English masters. 



For the Catalogue of English portraits, 1,537 have been prepared. 



Drawings have been mounted with sunk boards, to preserve them from Injury by 

 friction and other causes, to the number of 300; less valuable examples have been 

 mounted in the ordinary manner. 



Carbon prints from the drawings by Giovanni Bellini, Pietro Perugino, Leonardo da 

 Vinci, Tiziano Vecellio, Raphael Sanzio and Antonio Allegri, called Corregglo : in the 

 Louvre, Albertina, Venice, Milan, Florence, and Saxe-Welmar-EIsenach Collections, 

 474 in number, have been carefully mounted Avith sunk boards, having the name 

 of the artist, and also that of the collection to which they belong printed on each 

 mount, and arranged in 15 cases. This plan affords the student an advantage not 

 hitherto attainable, of comparing at a glance all the best works of the artists whose 

 names are enumerated above. 



Five hundred and seventeen prints by Woollett, "WIerix, &c., &c., have been mounted. 



Fifteen thousand six hundred and forty-one articles have been entered in the register 

 of purchases, presentations, and bequests. 



Thirteen thousand and nineteen articles have been stamped and inscribed with the 

 register marks. 



The portraits in the Eastern Zoological Gallery have been re-hung, after having been 

 carefully dusted ; the frames have been cleaned, and the numbers corresponding with 

 those in the synopsis on vvhite enamelled labels have been attached to each. 



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