l8 ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



The whole of the titles for the plates in Count Caylus's " Recueil d'Antiquites," have 

 been revised, and ninety-two additional ones have been prepared. 



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

 exclusive of those contained in Mr. Anderdon's " Collectanea Biographica," has been 6,125; 

 the following are the most important : — 



By Presentation ; 643 Examples : — 



The Diploma of the Highland Society, engraved on wood by Luke Clennell, from a 

 design by Benjamin West ; one of the few impressions that were taken from the original 

 block before it was destroyed in the fire at Bensley's printing-office. Presented by 

 W. B. Scott, Esq. 



Three diflferent donations by J. DefFett Francis, Esq., including a valuable collection 

 of drawings of Italian landscape, by Richard Wilson, k.a., 77 in number. They are 

 executed, for the most part, in black chalk on grey paper, and came from the collection of 

 Joseph Farington, R.A., who was a pupil of the artist. 



Four difterent donations by His Grace the Duke of Leinster, amounting in all to 

 66 prints and drawings, chiefly illustrating English and foreign Topography. 



The complete series of plates engraved for the •' Novelist's Magazine," from designs by 

 Thomas Stothard, R.A., 302 in number ; mounted in a volume. Bequeathed by Miss 

 Kearsley. 



Proofs of the nine reproductions from Dutch and Flemish prints illustrating M. Dutuit's 

 "Manuel de I'Amateur d'Estampes," vol. i. Presented by M. Eugene Dutuit. 



" El Gran Turco " ; proof of a reproduction from an Italian print of the 15th century 

 in the " Kupferstichkabinet" at Berlin. Also the Baptism of Christ, a restored fragment 

 of a rare print by Francia ; and a photograph from a print of Lucretia by Francia. 

 Presented by Richard Fisher, Esq. 



By Purchase : — 



Italian School; 136 Examples: — 



Drawings.^— A female head, drawn with the silver point by Lorenzo di Credi; a 

 beautiful example of the mrister. 



Three sheets of studies in black chalk by II Pordenone, for the paintings in Sta, Maria 

 Campagna at Piacenza. 



Others bv Lorer.zo Costa, Giovanni Paolo Panniiii, and Cesare Vecellio. 



Etchings. — By Francesco Bertelli, Giacomo Cortege, called " II Borgognone," A. Piccinni 

 and Lodovico Mattioli. 



Engravings. — The Guardian Angel, by Jacopo de Baibmj (B. 9). 

 Ten woodcuts by Francesco de Nanto, from designs by Girolamo da Trevisi. 

 Others by G. Bonaini, C. Cajani, Francesco Cecchini, D. Chiossone, E. Damele, 

 Raphael Morgiien, Antonio Perfetti, and Carlo Raimondi. 



German School ; 495 Examples : — 



Drawing. — A highly finished work in gouache by Barbara Dietzscli, of a butterfly 

 and flowers. 



Etchings. — A set of fourteen published by ihe Society of Etchers of Weimar, 1881. 

 Oihers by Balthasar Anton Dunker, Solomon Gessner, and Axel Herman Haig. 



Engravings. — The very rare set of Christ and the Apostles ; by Israhel von Meckenen 

 (B. 51-63). 



Children throwing two of their companions into a well ; by Heinrich Aldegrever 

 (B. 267). 



Head of a horse; by Hans Sebald Beham (B. 218). 



A vignette with horse and genii; by Jakob Binck (B. 81). 



Venus at the bath (B. 33) and two satyrs fighting for a nymph (B. 38); both by 

 Albrecht Altdorfer. 



A set of plates of the Five Senses; by Georg Pencz (B. 105-109). 



A boy holding a lighted candle, and Apollo addressing a nymph ; two examples in 

 mezzotinto by Prince Rupert. 



Five choice proofs of modern prints from pictures by Defregger and Carl von Plloty. 



Others by A. Altdorfer, H. Aldegrever, H. S. Beham, J. Binck, Johann Theodor de 

 Bry, Jakob Felsing, Ludwig Gruner, Matthew Merian, Johann Pleter Pichler, Virgil 

 Soils, and H. Walde. 



Dutch and Flemish Schools ; 81 Examples: — 



Drawings. — Meleager and Atalanla; hunting the wild boar ; by Frans Snyders, in pen, 

 washed with Indian ink. 



A group of pinks ; by Herman Saftleven, in water colours. 



Others by Abraham Diepenbeke, Georg Hoefnagel, Crispin de Passe, Erasmus 

 Quellin, Jan van Somcr, and Jan Wyck. 



Etchings. — 



