40 ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



By Presentation ; 1,340 examples : — 



A volume containing one hundred and four etchings and engravings which originally- 

 belonged to Samuel Ireland, and including a unique and probably complete set of his 

 own etchings, eighty-six in number. Also a fine proof impression of an engraving by 

 W. Pether, after G. Metzu, representing a man sitting, lighting his pipe. Presented by 

 r. E. Williams, Esq., of Swansea. 



" Engravings from the works of Sir Joshua Keyuolds, r.K.A.,"' three volumes, folio, 1865 ; 

 a continuation of the series engraved by S. W. Reynolds, and containing two hundred 

 proofs on India paper. Presented by Henry Graves, Esq. 



An artist's proof, with remark, of the etching by Leopold Flameng, from Rembrandt's 

 celebrated picture " The Night Watch," at Amsterdam. Presented by the artist. 



Forty-four etchings by Alphonsc Legros, in fine proof states, selected for the Museum 

 by the artist, and presented by him. 



A series of thirty-two '•Miscellaneous Rough Sketches of Oriental Heads," by George 

 Chinnery, k.h.a., on stone; half bound in morocco. Presented by J. H. Anderdon, Esq. 



Nine different donations from J. DefFett Francis, Esq., amounting in all to seven 

 hundred and sixty-three prints and drawings, and including eighteen drawings by J. R. 

 Herbert, k.a.. Sir P. Lely, Sir J. Reynolds, L. Sabbatini, Titian, A. Watteau, R. Wilson, 

 K.A., etc. ; three hundred and seventy-two English and foreign portraits, amongst them 

 Lucian the satirist, by W. Faithorue: six Roman Empresses, after Titian, by W. Sherwin; 

 Captain Bowen Davie?, by L. Dickinson; John Inglis, m.d., by T. Reid; Miss E. 

 Romer, by J. D. Francis; Lady Walscourt, after Lawrence, by Ensom, etc.; two hundred 

 and ten prints after English masters— G. Catton, J. Cruikshank, Gilchrist, W. Kent, 

 P. J. de Loutherbourg, G. Morland, H. Richter, Wood, etc.: twenty prints after foreign 

 masters — A. Barre, F. Boucher, F. Gerard, L. Robert, etc.; seventy-nine English 

 etchin"-s. amongst them examples by J. Boydell, Laporte, S. Howitt, T. Rowlandson, 

 R. West, etc. ; and eight plates by W. Sharp, after Gravelot, illustrating Marmontel's 

 •' Moral Tales," not hitherto in the Print Room collection of Sharp's works. 



By Purchase. — The most important additions acquired during the year were obtained 

 at the sale of the Galichou Collection at Paris, an additional sum of money having been 

 granted by the Treasury for that purpose. 



Italian School ; 1,466 Examples: — 



Drawings. — A first study in black chalk by Leonardo da Vinci for his celebrated com- 

 position of the Virgin and Saint Anne, which is in the Louvre, and the cartoon mentioned 

 by Vasari, in the Royal Academy: the Virgin is seated on the knees of Saint Anne, with 

 the Inf\int Jesus and Saint John before her: below are studies for the figure of the 

 Infant Jesus, and some sketches of hydraulic machines: on the reverse a head of an 

 old man, of the well known type of the master. 



Three studies for the Coronation of the Virgin, by Cosim(i liosselli, in bistre, heightened 

 Avith white. 



Studies of three draped male figures, by Sandro Botticelli: drawn with the silver point 

 and heightened witli white. 



A kneeling figure of John the Baptist, seen in profile: attributed to Andrea Mantegna, 

 drawn in bistre and heightened with white. 



Other examples by Fra liartpli/mmeo, Lorenzo di Credi, Battista Franco, Guercino, 

 Benedetto Montagna, Pcrino del Vaga, Francesco Vannl, Andrea del Verrocchio, and 

 Fcderigo Zuccaro. 



Etchings. — By Stefano Delia Bella, Agostino Mitelli, Crescenzio di Onofrio, and Pier 

 Francesco Prina. 



Engr(f.vings. — " Roma," a very rare example by Giovanni Battista del Porto (Passavant 7 ). 



Fine impressions of two undescribed works by Nicoletto da Modena, namely, the Saint 

 Antony, and a Turk and his wife, afier Albrecht Dlirer. 



A panel of arabesque ornament, Avith a trophy on a Avheeled carriage, by Zoan Andrea, 

 (Passavant 51.) 



The Viroin and Child, Avith Saint Helena and Saint Michael, by Giovanni Antonio da 

 Brescia (Passavant 33); an exceedingly rare specimen, in its manner of treatment, illus- 

 trating the best stage of the artist's career ; the impression in the Louvre being the only other 

 one knoAvn to exist. 



St. Jerome, by Benedetto Tvlontagna, an undescribed and very fine example. 



A magnificent impression of Marc Antonio's print of the Martyrdom of Saint Felicite, 

 in an early and pure state. 



Three beautiful impressions from niello plates, namely, Vulcan, Psyche, and head of 

 a young female: the last is particularly interesting as being an impression from a third 

 plate of the same design now in the Museum collection of nielli. 



One thousand and seventy-five carbon photographs from drawings by the old masters 

 in the Louvre, Uffizi, Venice, Albertina, Milan, and Saxe- Weimar galleries. 



Other examples by Pietro Santi Bartoli, Domenico Cunego, Giovanni Battista Falda, 

 Adamo Ghisi, Diana Ghisi, Carlo Lasinio, Giuseppe Longhi, Master of the Die, RaflTaelle 

 Morghen, Antonio Perfetti, Tommaso Piroli, Carlo Raimondi, Marc Antonio Rairaondi, 

 i'ranccsco Rosaspina, Luigi Schiavonetti, Francesco Vendramini, and Giovanni Volpato. 



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