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An autograph letter from J. M. W. Turner, R.A., addressed to Mr. F. C. Lewis, the 

 engraver, on the subject of one of the plates of the " Liber Studiorum." Presented by 

 J. JHardwicke Lewis, Esq. 



£1/ Purchase ; — 



The principal acquisition is the extensive collection of maps, plans and views of 

 London, formed by the late Mr. Frederick Grace, and purchased from his son, Mr. John 

 Gregory Grace. It consists of nearly 6,000 prints and drawings, arranged in 57 port- 

 folios, together with 18 large maps on rollers, two volumes of maps, and one volume of 

 illustrations of Frost Fairs on the Thames. The gradual growth of the Gity is shown in a 

 remarkably perfect manner by a series of maps, which commences with Vertue's copy of 

 that by Ralph Aggas, published in 1560, and continues without a break to 1859 ; many of 

 these are of extreme rarity, if not unique. The views of London include a fac-simile of 

 the valuable drawing by "Wyngaerde of about 1550, which is now in the Bodleian Library, 

 and many fine works by Hollar, Visscher, Kip and Buck. Among the drawings are 

 numerous examples by P. and T. Sandby, W. Capon, E.. B. Schnebbelie, Major Yates, 

 J. Findlay, J. Bucklei", G. Shepherd, and J. H. Shepherd, which are of great artistic 

 excellence. The last-mentioned draughtsman was employed by Mr. Grace in making 

 water-colour drawings of old buildings and streets in the Gity expressly for this 

 collection. 



Italian School; 87 Examples: — 



Drawings. ^-St. John the Baptist, by Girolamo Mocetto ; the original design in pen for 

 his well-known print (Bartsch XIII. 219. 5), from' which, however, it varies in some of 

 the details. 



Two studies of female figures, probably for the subject of the Annunciation, by 

 Filippino Lippi ; drawn with the silver point on light salmon-coloured paper, 



A standing figure of a soldier, seen from behind ; holding a halberd, by Giovanni 

 Francesco Surchi, called II Dielai ; a highly-finished work, drawn with the brush, and 

 heightened with white. 



A beautiful sheet of pen studies by Stefano Delia Bella. 



Other drawings by Filippo Grasso, Antonio Tempesta, Perino del Vaga, and F. 

 Vianelli. 



Etchings. — The Entombment ; a rare example by Battista Franco (B. 21). 

 Others by Stefano Delia Bella, M. Bianchi, A. Gasanova, O. Cortazzo, Pagliano, 

 Alberto Pasini, A. Piccini, and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. 



Engravings. — The Queen of Sheba before Solomon ; after Raphael, probably by Marco 

 da Ravenna ; not mentioned by Ruland in his Catalogue of the Raphael Collection at 

 Windsor, 



"La Poursuite; " a very rare print of the school of Marc Antonio (B. XV. 48. 4). 



Other engravings by Antonio Baldi, Nicola Beatrizet, Domenico Gunego, Bartolommeo 

 de Grado, and Rocco Pozzo. 



German School ; 1,159 Examples: — 



Drawings. — Christ on the Cross, with the Virgin and St. John ; by Hans Baldung 

 Griin ; drawn with a pen on dark ground, and heightened with white. ^ 



An elaborate design of the Last Judgment, by Albrecht Altdorfer ; in pen. 

 Other drawings by G. Witting and Kaiserman. 



Etchings. — By Jost Amman, Albert Dies, J. Eissenhardt, F. Gerasch, Eberhard Kieser, 

 Leopold Lowenstam, Jacob Wilhelm Mechau, H. Muth, Johann Christian Reinhart and 

 Wilhelm Peter Zimmermann. 



Engravings. — Saint Bartholomew (B. 11), and the Virgin and Child (B. 41); two very 

 rare works by Franz von Bocholt ; from the Schloesser collection. 



Saint Matthew (B. 39); by the Master of 1466'; from the same collection. 



A march of Turks ; an early woodcut in two sheets. 



A most interesting series of historical broadsides, 419 in number, illustrated with 

 engravings of the 16th and 17th centuries. These form a valuable addition to the 

 collection which was bequeathed to the Department by Miss Banks. 



Other engravings by J. M. Beck, Tobias Bidenhartter, Isaac Bnmn, Lucas Granach, 

 J. Dahlbergh, Martin Dichtl, Georg Christoph Eimmart, S. Hamer, Georg Daniel 

 Heumann, Franz Hogenberg, Wenzel Hollar, Peter Isselburgh, Aadreas Kohl, Wolff- 

 gang Kilian, Ignatz Sebastian Klauber, T. Danger, G. Gottfried Leigebe, Matthaus 

 Merian, A. P. Multz, Lucas Schnitzer, Virgil Solis, Tobias Stimmer, Peter Troschel and 

 H. Walde. 



Dutch and Flemish Schools ; 133 Examples : — 



Drawings. — Two most beautiful works in water-colours by Albert Cuyp, one of which 

 has a study of sky as fine as anything ever accomplished by the master. 

 A spirited sketch in pen by Philip Wouwerman. 

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