ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 4I 



James Seymour, Stephen Slaughter, E. P. Slocombe, E. Slocombe, F. Slocombe, John 

 Smith, Sir James Thornhill, Francis Vivares, James Whistler, and Hamlet Winstanley. 



Engravings. — An extremely interesting wooflcut in three blocks, measuring 19xl9| 

 inches, and reiDresenting " The Ark Royal," the largest vessel in Queen Elizabeth's 

 navy, and the flag-ship of Lord Howard of Effingham in the battles with the Armada; 

 she carried fifty guns, and was of 800 tons burthen ; in the woodcut she is represented 

 as rigged with four masts, and carrying the admiral's standard at her gangway, thus con- 

 tinuing the custom, which obtained in ancient as well as mediaeval times, of exhibiting 

 the armorials of the warriors on board a vessel, on shields suspended at her sides ; the 

 Royal standard flies at her mainmast head ; the Tudor rose is on a flag at the summit of 

 her mizenmast, and a St. George's cross appears at her foremast truck. This woodcut, if 

 it is of English origin, is one of the oldest works of the kind executed in this country. 



A curious series of the works in chiaro-scuro by Edward Kirkall. 



Portrait of" Mr. Harris acting Cardinal ^Yolsey," after Greenhill, by John Smith ; of 

 this print only one other impression is kno^^ u, which is cut to an oval, and is preserved 

 in the Pepys Collection in the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge. 



Other examples by J. C. Armytage, Francesco Bartolozzi, k.a., James Basire, Isaac 

 Becket, William Bond, Alexander Browne, John Dixon, Reginald Elstracke, John 

 Faber, William Faithorne, James Fittler, J ames Heath, William HoU, Edward Lutterel, 

 W. Ridgway, William Ridley, H. Roberts, John Smith, William Skelton, Joseph Con- 

 stantine Stadler, Lumb Stocks, r.a., Richard Thompson, George Vertue, George White, 

 Robert White, and Robert Williams. 



George William Reid, 



British Museum, J. Winter Jones, 



10 April 1875. Principal Librarian. 



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