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



One hundred and forty-nine Print Sale Catalogues have been entered in the MS. 

 catalogue. 



Two hundred and twenty-two titles have been prepared for the catalogues of Books 

 of Prints and Books of Reference. 



Six thousand nine hundred and eighty-one titles have been prepared for an index to 

 the Presentation Book, and a portion of them have been written out 



The greater part of the prints acquired during the year have been incorporated with 

 their respective collections. 



Books of Prints and Books of Reference have been placed on the shelves, with num- 

 bers corresponding to those affixed to them in the catalogues. 



The notes in Bromley's own copy of his " Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits " 

 have been transcribed into the interleaved copy in the Department. 



In order to slightly relieve the crowded state of the Department a number of volumes 

 containing prints which are seldom required, have been removed to the gallery of the 

 Gold Room. 



Five thousand six hundred and ninety-six articles have been entered in the Reo-ister of 

 acquisitions. 



Nine thoui^and and nineteen prints, drawings, and photographs have been impressed 

 with the departmental stamp and with references to the Register. 



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

 number of seven hundred and twenty-four, and one thousand five hundred and sixty- 

 one 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 : — 



Five thousand one hundred and sixty titles have been transcribed in manifold from the 

 Register. 



Eight thousand seven hundred and ten titles have been transcribed in manifold from 

 revised titles. 



Two thousand nine hundred and forty-two titles have been prepared for prints and 

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

 previously written for the same have been revised. 



Three thousand two hundred and ninety titles have been prepared for woodcuts by 

 Bewick, and for illustrations to the " Gazette des Beaux- Arts," " Zeitschrift fur Bil- 

 dende Kunst," and other works. 



One thousand three hundred and seventy-one titles have been prepared for prints in 

 magazines in the Department of Printed Books. 



The total number of prints, drawings, and photographs acquired during the year, is 

 7,491 ; of these, the following are the most important: — 



By Presentation ; 5,069 Examples : — 



An extremely valuable and beautiful collection of drawings, 165 in number, by Thomas 

 Bewick, the celebrated draughtsman and wood engraver, being the original designs for 

 his works on British Quadrupeds, Birds, and Fishes ; also a volume of proofs of his wood- 

 cuts, taken from the blocks by his own hands ; and another volume containino- drawino-s 

 and prints by his brother and nephew. Presented by Miss Isabella Bewick. 



A collection of 1,321 pi'oofs of plates engraved by John Pye, or under his direction, for 

 the Pocket Books entitled " The Polite Repository," " The Royal Repository," and 

 "The Souvenir;" the only complete set of these proofs in existence. Presented by 

 Miss Pye. 



Eight different donations by J. Deffett Francis, Esq., amounting in all to 1,440 jjrints 

 and drawings, and including a highly interesting collection of studies by Richard Cook, 

 R. A., which give the artist's first ideas for nearly all his works; a volume of original 

 studies by John Hayter, the portrait painter ; a touched proof of the scarce portrait of 

 George IV., when Prince of Wales, standing by his horse, engraved by J. Raphael 

 Smith ; drawings by Rubens, J. C. Schetky, P. J. de Loutherbourg, e.a., A. Cozens, 

 and T. Uwins, r.a. ; and prints by H[. Fragonard, M. Ricci, A. vanRymsdyk, B. Picart, 

 Gericault, Huet Villiers, V. Green, J. B. Chatelain, L. Schiavonetti, C. Turner, and others. 



Portraits of Edward John Waring, M.D., and his brother, the late John Burley Waring, 

 f.r.i.b.a. ; executed in lithography by Maclure and Macdonald. Presented by Edward 

 J. Waring, Esq., M.D. 



Two copies of the list of Bartolozzi's engravings, which forms part of Mr.Tuer's " Bar- 

 tolozzi and his Works." Presented by Andrew W. Tuer, Esq. 



" Old London Bridge, as Shakspere saw it about 1600, a.d. " ; the earliest genuine 

 full view ; (rom a unique drawing in Pepys's collection in Magdalen College, Cambridwe • 

 traced and photo-chromo-lithographed foT the New Shakspere Society, 1881, by W. 

 Griggs; two copies. Presented by F. J. Furnivall, Esq. 



" Etchings of Celebrated Shorthorns, by A. M. Williams, 1881 "; fifteen plates. Pre- 

 sented by A. M. WilHams, Esq. 



" The Rev. Dr. Morrison engaged in translating the Bible into the Chinese 

 Language " ; after G. Chinnery, by C. Turner, in mezzotinto. Presented by T. Jen- 

 ner, Esq. 



Two early Italian prints; Apollo, by an engraver of the school of Marc' Antonio 

 0.63. C 2 (B. 330) ; 



