40 ACCOUNTS, kc, OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



One thousand two hundred and fifteen titles have been prepared for the Catalogue of 

 foreign portraits. 



One thousand five hundred and fifty-nine titles have been prepared for the Catalogue 

 of prints after foreign masters. 



One hundred and three titles have been prepared for foreign historical prints. 



One thousand four hundred and thirty-nine titles have been prepared for the Catalogue 

 of books of prints. 



Thirty-two titles have been prepared for the Catalogue of pamphlets on Art subjects 

 in the Library of Reference. 



Seven hundred and sixty-eight titles hare been prepared for the Catalogues of English 

 and foreign engravings in mezzotinto. 



All the above titles have been duly incorporated, and the prints to which they refer 

 arranged with their respective collections. 



One thousand four hundred and twenty-two titles have been prepared for, and incor- 

 porated in the Catalogue of English portraits, and the portraits themselves have been 

 placed in their respective periods and classes, according to Bromley's arrangement. 



Ten thousand six hundred and ninety-five articles have been entered in the register of 

 purchases, presentations, and bequests. 



Prints and drawings have been impressed with the Departmental stamp and register 

 marks, to the number of twelve thousand six hundred and sixty-three. 



Six thousand four hundred and fifteen titles for the Moll Collection of German 

 portraits have been pasted down on full-sized slips of cartridge paper, and incorporated 

 with those of the general collection of foreign portraits. The whole of this series of titles 

 has now been thus mounted and arranged. 



The following acquisitions, 10,015 in number, have been made during the past year : — 

 By Presentation; 2,017 examples : — 



Several donations by J. H. Anderdon, Esq., amounting in all to one hundred and seventy- 

 five prints and drawings; among^st them examples by L. Cangiagio, T. Cecil, C. 

 Cignani, M. Heemskerck, N. Hone, B. Lens, B. E. Mui-illo, S. da Pesaro, &c. 



Portrait of Sir Charles Eastlake, after J. P. Knight, k.a., and the Dijjloma for the 

 Honorary Foreign Members of the Boyal Academy, after G. B. Cipriani, b.a., both 

 recently engraved by George T. Doo, Esq., R.A., and presente<l by him. 



Three donations by J. DefFett Francis, Esq., amounting in all to one hundred and 

 seventy-three examples, and including drawings by W. Blake, Gabbiani, G. da San 

 Giovanni, R. del Pace, S. Prout, R. Wilson, k.a., and A. Watteau; and etchings by 

 W. Crotch, Delamotte, Drummond, H. Gravelot, S. Prout, and T. Rowlandson. 



" Canonical Histories and Apocryphal Legends relating to the New Testament, repre- 

 sented in Drawings, with a Latin text. A photo-lith. Reproduction from an Ambrosian 

 MS., executed for James Gibson-Craig, Esq. Privately printed at Milan, 1873." 

 Presented by J. Gibson-Craig, Esq. 



An important donation by Miss Tatlock ; namely, a collection of seven hundred and 

 seventy-nine drawings, by her uncle, William Hilton, k.a. ; consisting of studies from the 

 antique and the life, and the first ideas for many of his pictures, amongst others his 

 " Eleazar and Rebecca," " St. Peter released from Prison," " Editha finding the dead 

 Body of Harold ;" " Sir Calepine rescuing Serena;" "Una;" and "Rape ofEuropa;" 

 also one hundred and sixty-three prints after English masters, including examples after 

 T. AUason, J. Buckler, Sir A. W. Callcott, G. B. Cipriani, L. Clennell, P. Dewint, Sir 

 C. Eastlake, W. Etty, John Flower, T. Hearne, W. Hogarth, R. Smirke, T. Stothard, 

 T. Uwins, &c. ; one hundred and twenty-four prints after Italian masters, including examples 

 after P. da Caravaggio, Domenichino, Michel Angelo, T. Mielly, Pinelli, Raffaelle, 

 Giulio Romano, Tintoretto, Titian, Palma Vecchio, &c. ; eighteen prints after French 

 masters, including examples after Barbault, C. Gillot, Le Moine, N. Poussin, L. Robert, 

 C. Vanloo, A. Watleau, &c. ; fifteen prints after Flemish masters, including examples 

 after Heemskerck, M. Coxcie, Jordaens, Rubens, Strada, &c. ; thirty-five English etch- 

 ings, and thirteen English portraits. 



By Purchase — 



Italian School; 774 Examples: — 



Drawings. — The Virgin and Child adored by St. Francis and St. John ; drawn with 

 the pen in bistre, washed with a tint of the same colour, and heightened with white ; by 

 Federigo Barocci; from the collection of Sir Thomas LaAvrence. 



Etchings. — By V. Avon do, F. di Bartoli, A. Beccaria, Bignomi, G. Borronseo, G. 

 Carelli, D. Casella, L. Crotio, A. Gastaldi, F. GonTn, A. Issel, A. Lauro, N. Lobrandi, 

 G. Mantelli, G. M. Mitelli, G. Monticelli, E. Pagliano, F. Palizzi, A. Pasini, F. Pastoris, 

 E. Perotti, B. Pinelli, A. Raimondi, Rayper, C. Righini, Duke Alfonso di Sartirana, 

 T. Signorini, C. Turletto, and Ussi. 



Engravings. — Many rare examples obtained at the sale of the second portion of tlie 

 Durazzo Collection at Stuttgart, including Fortune on a Globe, and six others, by 

 Nicoletto da Modena ; Hercules strangling Antasus, by Antonio Pollajuolo ; a curious 



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