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A perfect series of the Catalogues of the Society of British artists, 1760 to 1790, with 

 the rough edges, and a copy of their Charter; presented to them by George III., Novem- 

 ber 28, 1768. Also a perfect series of the Catalogues of the Free Society of Artists, 1761 

 to 1783. And a set of the Seven Deadly Sins, by Jerome Wierix. fii-st states, with 

 frontispiece; described by Alvin, 1296 to 1303; presented by J. H. Anderdon, Esq. 



Twelve etchings, by Samuel Palmer, selected by liimself for the Print Room ; 

 presented by Samuel Palmer, Esq. 



Portrait of Jonathan Eichardson, the painter; a drawing by himself in black and red 

 chalk, on grey paper, heightened Avith white ; presented by J. C. Kobinson, Esq. 



" Examples of the Engraved Portraiture of the Sixteenth Century," by Sir William 

 Stirling-Maxwell, Bart., ll.d. ; London and Edinburgh, 1872 ; presented by the author. 



By Purchase — 



Italiiiu School; 1 ,S09 JSxamples : — 



Drawings. — Specimens by Domenico Campagnola, Benedetto Gennari, Cavaliere Ghezzi, 

 Giovanni da San Giovanni, Bernardino Passari, Camillo Procaccini, Marco Ricci, 

 Domenico Tiepolo and Tognoli. 



Etchings. — By Cherubino Alberti, Francesco Arnato, Giacinto Gimignani, Lorenzo 

 Loli, Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, Marco Pitteri, Cesare Roberti, Stefano della Bella, and 

 Horatio di Santis. 



Engravings. — A portion of a Bacchanalian subject, representing dancing fauns and 

 nymphs, some with offerings, and others playing on the pipe and cymbals under a trellis of 

 vine; by Baccio Baldini, from a design by Sandro Botticelli; unique and undescribed, and 

 very remarkable as forming a portion of a frieze, the centre of which, the Triumph of Bacchus 

 and Ariadne, was already in the Museum, having been formerly in the Sykes, Ottley, 

 and AVellesley Collections, and is fully described in Passavant's "Le Peintre-Graveur," 

 vol. v., p. 44, No. 104. This portion is also unique, and the importance of bringing them 

 together cannot be over-estimated. Obtained from the Marquis of Masclary's sale at 

 Brussels. 



Other examples by Francesco Aquila, Pietro Bettelini, Giovanni Battista Cecchi, 

 Master of the Die, Diana Ghisi, Marius Kartaro, Ottavio Leoni, Pietro Lucatelli, 

 Alessandro Mochetti, Cosmo Mogalli, Stefano Mulinari, Antonio Perfetti, Martin Rota, the 

 Master, i.H.S., Agostino Veneziano, Enea Vico, and Francesco Villamena. 



German School; 519 Examples: — 

 Drawings. — By Christopher Schwartz, Jan Ewart, and IL Ziegler. 



Etchings and Engravings.- — An important series of prints, illustrating the early history 

 of engraving in Germany, obtained from the Collection of Herr Weigel of Leipzig, and 

 fully described in Die Anfange der Druckerkunst, von T. O. Weigel, und Dr. A. 

 Zestermann ; consisting of eleven engravings on metal, twenty-nine on wood, twenty- 

 three in the " Maniere criblee " five on copper, and sixteen specimens of playing cards. 



Others by Jost Amman, Hans Sebald Beham, Franz Brun, Alaert Claas, Paul Franz 

 Ferg, Johann Friedrich Greuter, Hans Baldung Gran, Franz Hogenberg, Wenceslaus 

 Hollar, Joliann Lodenspelder, Herman Hendrik Quiter, Johann Chi'istian Reinhart, and 

 Virgil Solis. 



Three of the original iron or steel plates engraved by Lambert Hopfer, and described 

 by Bartsch, " Peintre-Graveur," vol. viii., Nos. 28-30, in an excellent state of preserva- 

 tion, and highly interesting, as establishing the fact, that other metals, besides copper, 

 were used for the purpose of engraving in the sixteenth century. 



Dutch and Flemish Schools; 780 Examples: — 



Drawings. — By Jakob De Gheyn, C. Van Hardenberg, G. Hessel, Jan Vander 

 Heyden, Willem van Nieulant, Joachim Uytenwael, Willem van de Velde, and 

 Martin de Vos. 



Etchings and Engravings. — By Dirk de Bry, Frederick Bontals, Adriaen Collaert, 

 Cornells van Dalen, Philip Galle, Jan Griffier, Hendrik Hondius, Pieter de Jode, 

 Conrad Lauwers, Jan Meyssens, Paul Pontius, Pieter Schenck, Pieter van Scluippen, 

 Cornells Schut, Pieter Tanje, Gerard Valck, Cornelis Visschcr, Jan Visscher, Jerome 

 Wierix, and Lukas Vorsterman. 



French School ; 2,004 Examples : — 



Drawings. — By L. Allemand, E. Aubert, Louis Pierre Boitard, Jean Baptiste Chate- 

 lain, Louis Cheron, Sebastian Le Clerc, Raymond de la Fage, Plonore Fragonard, 

 Charles Gabriel Gauthier, M. Lauron, Jean Louis de JMarne, P. du Moustier, Count 

 D'Orsay, Joseph Parrocel, Fran9ois Quesnel, and Hyacinthe Rigaud. 



Etchings and Lithographs. — A collection of sevety-eight proofs of the works of Maxirae 

 Lalanne, selected by himself for the Print Room ; others by Victor Adam, Pierre Biard, 

 Jacques Callot, Sebastian Le Clerc, Auguste Delatre, Desmaisons, Deveria, F. Fabcr, 

 Grcvedon, Etienne De Laune, Charles Meryon, Leon Noel, Jean Baptiste Le Prince, 

 Thomas de Thomon. 



188. Cf Engravings. 



