ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Henri Tardieu, Jean Valdor, Jean Charles Le Vasseur, Fran9ois Vivares, and 'Jean 

 Georges Wille. 



English. School : — 



Drawings. — Early illustrations to Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrimage, by J. Chalmers. 

 Ten designs by Benjamin West, p.r.a., for his most celebrated pictures, amongst them 

 the first idea for the Battle of the Boyne, with MS. notes ou the back of each, in the 

 painter's handwriting. Three sketch-books of Thomas Edridge. 



Other specimens by Sir William Allan, Kichard Corbouid, Francis Danby, Francis 

 Lewis Francia, Charles Fox, Sawrey and the Rev. William Gilpin, Frederick Goodall, 

 K.A., Sir Thomas Lawrence, p.r.a., Thomas Malton, Francis Nicholson, W. Payne, Aaron 

 Penley, Nicholas Pocock, Samuel Prout, William Henry Pyne, George Harley, Sir 

 George Hayter, the Rev. Mr. Judkins, Thomas Rowlandson, Thomas H. Sheppard, W. 

 J. Smith, James Stark, W. P. Sherlock, Thomas Uwins, k.a., Samuel Williams, John 

 . Wilson, and George M. Woodward. 



Etchings. — By Francis Barlow, William Blake, E. Bland, Robert Blyth, Hablot Knight 

 Browne, John Buckler, Letitia Byrne, S. Colman, John Crome, Geoi'ge Cumberland, 

 H. Davy, Philip George Dodd, Thomas Dudley, Edward Edwards, Edward Finden, G. 

 Garr&rd, Robert Gaywood, Sawrey and the Rev. William Gilpin, Seymour Haden, J. 

 Haynes, Sir George Hayter, Samuel Howitt, Julius Cassar Ibbetson, John Leech, 

 Frederick Christian Lewis, George Morland, Henry Moses, Charles Norris, Francis 

 Place, J. Powell, Augustus Welby Pu^in, David C. Read, P. H. Rogers, Thomas 

 Rowlandson, George Augustus Sala, William Sherwin, Sir James Stuart, Mrs. Dawson 

 Turner, J. M. W. Turner, Charles Wild, and Hugh William Williams, 



Engravings. — A fine collection of the works of John Jones, the eminent mezzotinto en- 

 graver, 140 in number, selected by himself, and, until acquired for the Museum, preserved 

 in the family. 



A set of 763 proofs of the works of John Curtis, illustrating British Entomology. 



Other examples by John Cai'r Armitage, Alexander Bannerman, Francesco Bar- 

 tolozzi, James Basire, George Bickham, William Bond, Frederick William Branston, 

 Thomas Burke, Anthony Cardon, Thomas Chambers, Martin Droeshout, Francis 

 Engleheart, John Faber, William Faithorne, James Fittler, Thomas Frye, William 

 Green, John Hall, John Harris, Charles and James Heath, T. Hodgetts, John Lewis, 

 J. Wilson Lowry, Thomas Lupton, James McArdell, Thomas Morris, John Murphy, 

 JohnOutrim, Remi Parr, William Pether, Abraham Raimbach, Samuel William Reynolds, 

 William Rogers, Edward Rooker, H. T. Ryall, John Scott, John Keyse Sherwin, 

 Peter Simon, T. Simpson, John Raphael Smith, Joseph Constantine Stadler, Charles 

 Tomkins, Charles Turner, William Wallis, William Ward, Rober White, and James 

 Tibbetts Willmore, a.e. 



Great additions have been made to the collections of portraits, historical subjects, 

 and prints after masters. 



George William Reid. 



Note. — The work of copying and lithographing the Cuneiform Inscriptions and Tablets 

 of Western Asia has been continued during the past year; the progress made is reported 

 to have been as follows : — 



Eighteen sheets of Bilingual Tablets, being the continuation of the 4th volume, have 

 been copied on stone, and are only awaiting final corrections to be ready for press. 



J. Winter Jones, 

 British Museum, Principal Librarian. 



16 April 1872. 



