ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



-DiiPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS. 



The following work has been done in the Department during the year : — 



The collection of original designs by John Doyle, for his " H. B. Political Sketches, 

 and the remainder of the Grace Collection of London Topography, have been withdrawn 

 from public exhibition in the King's Library. 



The collection of engravings by .John Pye has been removed from the exhibition in the 

 second Northern Gallery, and replaced by a selection of reproductions by Amand-Durand 

 of etchings and enizravings by representative masters of different schools. 



A selection of duplicate engravings of the Italian, German, Dutch and Flemish, 

 French, and English Schools, arranged in historical order, has been lent to the Gommittee 

 of the Wolverhampton Industrial and Fine Art Exhibition. A catalogue of the selection 

 has been prepared. 



The remaining part of the Early G-erman and Flemish Prints described in Dr. Willshire's 

 Catalogue, has been mounted, and the whole collection arranged in thirty-seven solander 

 cases. 



The collection of impressions from Italian niello plates has been arranged in three 

 solander cases. 



The Italian drawings have all been brought together and re-arranged, and a preli- 

 minary catalogue of the collection has been prepared. 



The Dutch and Flemish drawings have all been brought together and arrano-ed in 

 alphabetical order m forty-three solander cases. 



The English drawings have been partially re-arranged, and the preparation of a com- 

 plete index to them has been begun. 



The works of Abraham Bosse have been re-arranged in three solander cases. 



The woodcuts by Johann Georg linger and Johann Gottlieb Friedrich linger have 

 been arranged in a volume. 



A complete shelf-list or inventory of the contents of the Department has been under- 

 taken, and nearly finished. 



A general index of the artists represented in the Department has been commenced, and 

 the Italian and Dutch divisions completed. 



Three thousand one hundred and thirty-three jjrints have been distributed among the 

 collections to which they severally belong. 



The English and German drawings recently mounted have been distributed. 



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

 Prints and Books of Reference. 



All books of Prints and Books of Reference recently acquired have been placed on the 

 shelves. 



One thousand five hundred and seventy-three items have been entered in the Register 

 of Acquisitions. 



Two albums of fine foreign portraits from the Cracherode Collection have been bi'oken 

 up, and their contents distributed. 



One hundred and three Print Sale Catalogues have been entered in the MS. cata- 

 logue. 



Acquisitions. 



The following drawings, prints, &c., amounting in all to one thousand nine hundred 

 and ninety-four, have been acquired during the year. They are classed according to the 

 arrangement practically in use in the department. 



Italian School, 

 Diatoings. 



Barbieri, Giovanni Francesco, called Guercino (attributed to). Woman with three 

 children ; black chalk. 



Anonymous. Head of a young man; pen and ink, washed. Sketch representing 

 Salvator Rosa and four friends running for shelter in a storm ; pen and ink, washed. Five 

 others, presented hy Dr. L^erci/, F.R.S. 



Etching. 

 Anonymous. " Fontana nella Piazza di Bologna." 



Engravings. 



Master of the monogram ^ (" Peregrino da Cesena "). Triumph of Neptune. 

 (Duchesne 214) 



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Barbari, Jacopo de'. Sacrifice to Priapus (Bartsch 19). 



Brescia, Giovanni Antonio da. The Great Horse, after Albrecht Dlirer (Passavant 



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