ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Department of Prints ^\nd Draavings. 



A descriptive catalogue has been prepared by Mr. R. Fisher, and the manuscript is 

 now complete, of the Early Italian prints, nielli, and sulphur casts in the Department, 

 which have been temporarily re-arranged for the purpose. This collection of the works 

 of the painter-engravers who flourished in Italy before the establishment of a school 

 of professional engravers by Marc Antonio greatly exceeds in value and comprehensiveness 

 every other of its kind in Europe. 



The second volume of Dr. Willshire's Catalogue of the Early German and Flemish 

 prints, is still in progress. 



The Early German and Flemish prints described in the first volume of Dr. Willshire's 

 catalogue have been arranged in ten solander cases. 



The engravings on copper, etchings, and drypoints by Albrecht Diirer, in order to 

 protect them from risk of injury, have been removed from the guard-books in whicli they 

 were kept, mounted on sunk boards, and arranged in three solander cases. 



The reproductions from drawings by the Old Masters in the Queen of Saxony's 

 the Berlin, and the Goncourt collections, have been arranged in ten solander cases. 



The drawings by Richard Wilson, k.a., presented by Mr. J. DefFett Francis, have 

 been ari'anged in two solander cases. 



The collection of prints by Jonas Suyderhoef, the eminent Dutch engraver, has been 

 arranged according to Wussin's catalogue ; and a rough list of his works has been 

 prepared, in which the examples possessed by the Department have been marked off. 

 The works of the Sadeler family have been arranged in a portfolio. 

 The collections of prints after F. Boucher, C. N. Cochin, J. D. Ingres, C. Le Brun, 

 E. Le Sueur, C. Monnet, and J. M. Moreau, have been classified according to subjects, 

 to facilitate reference. 



The portraits recently on exhibition in the King's Library have been returned to the 

 portfolios. 



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

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



Descriptions have been prepared of the German nielli for the second volume of the 

 Catalogue of Early German and Flemish prints. 



An index of the artists' names and monograms has been prepared to the collection of 

 Early German woodcuts. 



An index of the artists' names has been prepared to the collection of iirints after 

 English masters. 



Separate indexes of artists' names have been prepared to the fifteen different schools 

 into which the collection of prints after Italian masters are divided by Lanzi. 



An index of engravers' names has been prepared to the Catalogue of the Raphael 

 Collection at Windsor. 



The entries in the Catalogue of the Raphael Collection at Windsor have been tran- 

 scribed on sheets, for the purpose of facilitating the arrangement of that Piaster's 

 works. 



A large number of Print Sale Catalogues have been entered in the MS- catalo"-ue. 

 A large number of prints after foreign masters, prints by foreign engravers, and 

 foreign portraits and historical prints have been incorporated with their respective collec- 

 tions, and references added in the indexes. 



English portraits and prints after English masters have been similarly treated. 

 Four thousand, eight hundred and thirty-five articles have been entered in the Reo-ister 

 of purchases, presentations, and bequests. 



Two hundred and eleven titles have been prepared for the catalogues of Books of 

 Prints and Books of Reference. 



Seven thousand, five hundred and fifty-one prints, drawings, and photographs, have 

 been impressed with the departmental stamp and references to the Register. 



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

 number of one thousand, one hundred and fifty-five, and three hundred and fifty-eio-ht 

 have been mounted in the ordinary manner ; and in all cases the names and references 

 have been printed in bistre on the mounts. 



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

 of the Department : — 



Six thousand and thirty-five titles have been transcribed in manifold from the 

 Register. 



Three thousand, nine hundred and eight titles have been prepared for prints illustrating 

 the " Gazette des Beaux- Arts." 



Seven thousand six hundred and ninety-nine titles have been prepared for prints and 

 drawings illustrating Mr. Anderdon's " Collectanea Biographica," and a portion of them 

 have been revised. 



One thousand and forty-eight titles have been prepared for prints illustrating mao-azlnes 

 in the Department of Printed Books. 



The whole of the titles for prints and drawings in the Grace Collection of London 

 Topography have been revised, and three hundred and twenty-nine additional ones have 

 been prepared. 



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