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



All the English and foreign portraits, etchings, mezzotints, and prints after English 

 masters, recently acquired, have been incorporated in their respective collections ; and 

 references added in the indexes. 



Interesting historical prints, and prints after foreign masters, have been similarly 

 treated. 



All the books of prints and books of reference acquired during the year have been 

 placed on the shelves, and press-marks attached to them. 



Five thousand and thirty-four articles have been entered in the Register of purchases, 

 presentations, and bequests. 



Ten thousand seven hundred and fifty-seven prints, drawings, and photographs, have 

 been impressed with the depai'tmental stamp and references to the Register. 



Prints, drawings, and carbon photographs have been mounted on sunk boards to the 

 number of 1,164, and 854 others have been mounted in the ordinary manner, and in all 

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



One hundred and forty-eight titles have been prepared for the Catalogue of Books of 

 Prints. 



One hundred and four titles have been prepared for the Catalogue of the Library of 

 Reference. 



The following work has been executed for the proposed printed Catalogue of the contents 

 of the Department : — 



Seven hundred and seventy-six titles have been prepared for prints illustrating volumes 

 in the Library of Reference. 



The inscriptions on admission tickets and visiting cards, contained in 16 volumes of the 

 Banks Collection, have been transci'ibed when artists' names were found upon them. 



Two thousand nine hundred and fifty-eight titles have been transcribed in manifold 

 from the Register. 



Seventeen thousand four hundred and sixty-nine titles have been written for the 

 volumes of drawings by Van Huysum and Mrs. Beale, and prints in " Annales du 

 Musee," " Antiquities of Ionia," and other woi'ks, which are not given in detail in the 

 Register. 



Twelve hundred titles have been written for prints illustrating magazines in the 

 Deiiartment of Printed Books. 



A large number of the above titles have been revised. 



The total number of prints and drawings added to the collection during the past year 

 was 11,134 ; the following are the most important : — 



By Presentation', 191 Examples: — 



An etched portrait of Mr. TV. C. Angus, and a study of a tree executed with the 

 drypoint; by Professor Alphonse Legros ; presented by himself. 



" LArt et les Artistes Hollandais," by Henry Havard. Parts II. and III. ; Paris 

 1880, 8vo. ; presented by M. Quantin. 



Seven drawings and twelve etchings by John White Abbott; presented by F. A. 

 Abbott, Esq. 



Four different presentations by J. Deffett Francis, Esq., amounting in all to 31 prints, 

 and including a portrait of a lady by J. R. Smith ; four lithographs by H. Walter ; 

 drawing-books by J. F. Manskirsh and J. Hassell; nine views in the Isle of Wight, 

 after E. Armstrong, and W. Varley, &c. 



A collection of 63 miscellaneous prints, comprising English and foreign portraits, prints 

 after English and foreign masters, and caricatures ; presented by John Percy, Esq., m.d., 



F.R.S. 



Three impressions from unpublished plates of Turner's "Liber Studiorum," viz., the 

 etching of the first plate of "Ploughing, Eton;" the nearly finished mezzotint of the 

 second plate of the same subject ; and the etching of " Sheep-washing, Windsor," which 

 has been recovered by charcoaling down the worn-out mezzotint work. Presented by 

 W. G. Rawlinson, Esq. 



" The Engraved Portraits of Washington, with Notices of the Originals," &c., by 

 W. S. Baker, 1880, 4to. ; also a large paper copy of Baker's " William Sharp, Engraver," 

 &c., 1877, 8vo. ; and a reproduction of one of the unique series of anonymous early Italian 

 prints which were formerly in the Otto Collection. Presented by W. S. Baker, Esq., of 

 Philadelphia, U.S. 



" The Amanda Group of Bagford Poems (c. 1668) from the rare Originals in the 

 British Museum, &c. ; collected and annotated by J. W. Ebsworth, M.A.," Hertford, 1880, 

 8vo. ; presented by the Rev. J. W. Ebsworth, m.a. 



Twelve etchings executed by Mrs. R. H, Major ; presented by herself. 



Six Inlaying cards of the 17th century ; an etched book-plate " Libertas," and " Notes 

 on the Pictures, Plate, &c., at Carton, Kilkea Castle, and 6, Carlton House Terrace, 

 London," 1S72. Presented by the Marquis of Kildare. 



A sheet of studies of camels and slieep ; drawn in pencil by Alexandre Decamps. 

 This drawing formed lot 94 in the sale of the artist's collection. Presented by Henry 

 Wallis, Esq. 



A portrait of General Sir Edward Sabine, f.e.s., engraved in mezzotinto ; and a 

 portrait of Mr. J. R. McCuUoch, the political economist ; proofs on India paper. 

 Presented by Mrs. Longman. 



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