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numerous royal proclamations, warrants, petitions, broadsides, ad%ertisomeuts, and other 

 notabilia in connection witli playing cards, have been added to the above. The first part 

 of the volume— the General History— and the gre.iter jjart of the second are in the hands 

 of the printer. 



The collection of early Genaau v>uotl-cuts has been brouo-ht together, and temporarily 

 arranged in five cases; the three old volumes marked E 7, E 8 and E 9, in Avhich a part 

 of the collection was contained, have been broken up, and tlielr contents impressed Avith 

 the ])ro25er I'eferences, and duly incorporated. 



The collection of fine modern Italian engravings has been re-arranged in clirouological 

 order, in seven volumes, and an alphabetical index has been prepared of tlie engravers' 

 names, together with a chronological list. 



The large collection of prints after George Morland has been arranged in three sojander 

 cases, and all recent acquisitions liave been incorporated. 



The collection of prints after Nicolas Poussin is in course t)f arrangement, and enough 

 have already been mounted to fill two solauder cases : the artist's name and the references 

 to Andressen being printed in bistre on each mount. 



The collection of prints after Peter Paub Rubens is also being arranged, those already 

 mounted filling four solander cases. The artist's name and the references to Basan's and 

 Schneevoogt's catalogues are printed in bistre on the mounts. 



The works of Abraham Bosse, the eminent Fi^ench etcher of the seventeenth century, 

 have been arranged in two solander cases ; the artist's name and the references t« 

 Duplessis's catalogue being printed on each mount. 



The etched works of James A. M. Whistler have been arranged in two volumes, with 

 the names and references to the catalogue of Mr. Ralph Thomas printed in lustre on each 

 mount. 



The works of Edward Kirkall in mezzotinto and chiaroscuro have been arranged in a 

 volume, and marked oft' in Le Blanc's list of the artist's works. 



The additions to the collection of the w^orks of Stefano Delia Bella, obtained from the 

 Howard Collection, eighty-three in number, Ikh e been incorporated, and the references 

 printed in bistre on the mounts. 



Sixteen of the old volumes, marked R 2, R 3, R 4, R 8, U 1, U 2, U 4, U 5, U 6, 

 U 7, U 8, U 9, V 3, W 2, W 3, and W 7, ecntaining one thousand nine lumdred and 

 forty-seven engravings have been broken up, and the prints, after being impressed with 

 the Museum stamp and references to the inventory, distrilnited. 



The drawings by masters of the Dutch, Flemish, French, and English schools receiitly 

 mounted have been incorporated with their respective collections. 



The first portion of the catalogue of portraits, liistorical piJnts. costumes, &c., contained 

 in the illustrated copy of Madame de Sevigne's Letters, namely, that of the portraits, has 

 been completed, and is now bound in two volumes. 



An index of engravers' names has been prepared to Drugulin's Historical Atlas, 

 foraiing by itself a good-sized volume. 



An index of names and inscriptions has been made to Andiessen's catalogue of the 

 works of Nicolas Poussin, and bound up with it. 



A list in full has been prepared of the MS. catalogues in the Department. 



All prints recently acquired, with the exception of the foreign historical and those after 

 foreign masters, which have been distributed with their respective collections, have been 

 sorted and placed in portfolios, ready for cataloguing. 



Drawings and carbon photographs have been mounted on sunk boards, to preserve them 

 from injury by friction, to the number of seven hundred and nineteen ; and prints to the 

 number of one thousand seven hundred and seventy have been mounted in the ordinary 

 manner; and in all cases the names and references have been printed in bistre on the mounts. 



One thousand and twenty-two titles have been prepared for the Catalogue of prints 

 after foreign masters. 



Two hundred and ten titles have been prepared for the Catalogue of foreign portraits. 



Four hundred and eighty-six titles have been prepared for the Catalogue of books of 

 prints. 



One himdred and forty-one titles have been prepared for the Catalogue of foreign 

 mezzotints. 



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

 arranged with their respective collections. 



One hundred and twenty-four titles have been prepared for the printed Catalogues of 

 historical and satirical prints. 



Seventeen thousand and fifty-nine articles have been entered in the register of 

 purchases, presentations, and bequests. 



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

 or inventory marks, to the number of twenty-three thousand eight hundred and eighty- 

 seven. 



Fifty-one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine titles have been pi-epared in manifold 

 from the register for the new general index of the contents of the Department. 



Copies have been made, for the use of the Department, of the inventories of the Sheep- 

 sljanks and Banks collections. 



The following acquisitions, 12,861 in uumber, have been made during the pnst year : — 

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