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A portrait of Felix Slatle, Esq., drawn in clialks, by Mrs. Margaret Carpenter. Pre- 

 sented by William Carpenter, Esq. 



A collection of one hundred and fifty-nine original sketches, illustrating the local 

 antiquities of Etruria ; also four tracings, fifty-five etchings and lithographs, and nine 

 .sketch books; all by S. James Ainsley, Esq., and bequeathed by him. 



By Purchase. — The most important examples acquired by purchase have been selected 

 from the fine collection formed by Hugh Howard, an eminent connoisseur, at the com- 

 mencement of the last century; at his death, in 1737, the collection was removed to Ire- 

 land, wliere it remained without being in any way interfered with, until its sale, in two 

 l^ortions, in December 1873 and November 1874 ; from each division, previous to its sale, 

 the Museum authorities were permitted to select whatever specimens were required for 

 the dej^artment. 



Italuni School ; 1,670 Examples: — 



Draioings. — Profile head of an old man, highly finished in sepia, with a pen ; by 

 Leonardo da Vinci. 



Thirty-eight designs for plate and furniture, by Giidio Romano, drawn in sepia with a 

 brush ; these form part of a numerous collection of similar works, some of which are in 

 the collection of the Duke of Devonshire, at Chatsworth, while others were already in the 

 Print Room, having been acquired with the Payne Knight collection. 



A frieze of marine gods, by Luca Cambiaso. 



Other examples by Alessandro Algardi, Stefano Delia Bella, Valerio Belli, 

 Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, Lodovico Caracci, Polidoro da Caravaggio, Crescenzi, 

 Paolo Farinato, Francesco Fernandi, Giorgione, Pletro Liberi, Benedetto Luti, Carlo 

 Maratti, Antonio Pellegrini, Pietro de'Pietri, Mattia Preti, Lorenzo Sabatini, Francesco 

 Salviati, Bartolommeo Schidone, Riccio da Siena, Llonello Sjiada, Agostiuo Tassi, Pietro 

 Testa, and Caspar Vanvitelli. 



Etchinc/s. — By Giuseppe d'Arpino, Alessandro Badiali, Giaconio Barri, Bonaventura 

 Bisi, Giovanni Battista Bolognini, Agostino Caracci, Lodovico Caracci, Giovanni Bene- 

 detto Castiglione, Giovanni Battista de Cavalleri, Alberto Fontana, Battista Fontana, 

 Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi, Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, Marius Kartarus, 

 Giovanni Lanfranco, II Lucchese, Agostino Mitelli, Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, Orizonte, 

 Sebastian o Orlandi, Parmigiano, Francesco Perrier, Lorenzo Pasinelli, Bartolommeo 

 Passerotti, Ventura Salimbeni, Raff'aello Sciaminossi, Pietro Stefanoni, Antonio Tempesta, 

 and Giovanni Luigi Valesio. 



Engravings. — An early Florentine print, probably by Leonardo da Vinci, representing 

 a dragon seizing a lion ; this is not described in any book of reference, or known to any 

 modern collector, but there exists a drawing of the same subject, by Leonardo, in the 

 Uffizi Gallery, and there is also a reversed copy by Zoan Andrea, which is described 

 by Bartsch. 



Four rare examples by Marc Antonio Raimondi, namely : — The Queen of Sheba, in an 

 early state, before tlie plate was corroded ; the Nativity, after I'rancia, one of the plates 

 executed before Raimondi went to Rome ; in an early state, before the nimbus over the 

 heads of the Virgin and St. Joseph ; St. ApoUonia, one of the most beautiful of the little 

 saints ; and a curious counterproof of " La Cassolette," which is the only instance known of 

 this mode of taking impressions by Marc Antonio. 



Others by Cherubino Alberti, Andrea Andreani, Pietro Aquila, Pietro Santi Bartoli, 

 Niccolo Beatrizet, Domenico Beccafumi, Giulio Bonasone, Giovanni Antonio da Brescia, 

 Domenico Campagnola, Carlo Cesio, Bartolommeo Coriolano, Girolamo Ferroni, Battista 

 Franco, Giovanni Girolamo Frezza, Diana Ghisi, jSIaster of the Die, Andrea Procaccini, 

 Marco da Ravenna, Martin Rota, Orazio de Sancti, Giovanni Battista Vanni, Agostino 

 Veneziano, Enea Vico, Filippo Vasconi, Francesco Villamena, and Antonio Maria 

 Zanetti. 



German School ; 596 Examples ; — 



Draioings. — A design for the hilt and sheath of a dagger, by Hans Holbein, made in 

 Indian ink, with a fine brush, in his admirable and comj^lete mode of execution ; it is 

 most elaborately enriched with arabesques of foliage, satj'rs, male and female figures, &c., 

 and is of exquisite draughtsmanship and superb design. 



A finely drawn liead of the Duke of Lauderdale, by Sir Peter Lely ; spiritedly ren- 

 dered in chalks, on buff paper. 



Other examples by Prince Rupert and Virgil Soils. 



Engravings. — A fine impression of St. Francis receiving the Stigmata ; by Israel von 

 Meckenen. 



Two friezes, of great beauty and rarity, by Bartel Beham, the ablest of the little 

 masters. 



A brilliant impression, in the first state, of the portrait of William, Duke of Juliers ; 

 by Henry Aklegrever. 



An undescribed print, representing figures seated near a tent, engraved in mezzotinto 

 by Prince Rupert. 



148. F 3 . Other 



