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



Three thousand, one hundred and ninety-eight jn-ints have been distributed among the 

 collections to which they severally belong. 



One hundred and fifty-five drawings by Italian, Dutch and Flemish, German, and 

 English artists, have also been distributed. 



Thi'ee thousand and fifty-eight items have been entered in the register of acquisi- 

 tions. 



One thousand, three hundred and sixty -two titles have been prepared for the catalogues 

 of Books of Prints and Books of Reference. 



Eighty-five titles have been prepared for portraits engraved by C. H, Jeens. 



Five thousand, three hundred and seventy-two prints, drawings, etc., have been im- 

 pressed with the dei)artmental stamp and references to ihe register or inventory, and six 

 hundred and ninety-two have been stamped with the old crown. 



Four hundred and forty-seven prints and drawings have been placed on sunk mounts, 

 and five hundred and forty-five mounted in the ordinary manner. 



Acquisitions. 



The total number of drawings, prints, etc., acquired during the year was four thousand, 

 two hundred and twenty-three, of which the following are the most important. The 

 drawings enumerated Avere principally purchased from the collections of the late 

 William Kussell, Esq., the late Edward Cheney, Esq., and the late Professor Grahl, of 

 Dresden: — 



Italian School. 



D/aicings. 



Anonymous, fifteenth century. Two sheets of studies of figures of young men ; pen 

 and sepia. Presenti'd hy J. C. Robinson, Esq., F.S.A. 



Abbate, Nicolo dell'. Funeral of a King of France ; jjen and sepia, heightened with 

 white. 



Albertiiielli, Mariotto. The vision of St. Bernard ; pen and bifjtre. 



Bandinelli, Baccio. Group of naked figures ; pen. 



Buonuccorsi, Pierino (called del Vaga\ Decorative design, with the Virgin and Child 

 under a canopy, and St. Peter and St. Lucy below ; pen, tinted. 



Buonarroti, Michelangelo, "i'wo sheets of slight studies of kneeling and standing 

 figures; black chalk. 



Empoli, Jacopo da. Study of a standing male figure, draped; red chalk. 



Fancelli, Giuseppe. 'Ihe Great Door of the Ducal Palace, Venice ; pen and Indian 

 ink, washed. The Giant's Staircase in the same ; pen and Indian ink, washed. 



Ferrari, Gaudcnzio (attributed to). Christ disputing with the Doctors; pen and sepia, 

 heightened with white. 



Foligno, Nicolo da. Study for a figure of the impenitent thief on the cross, with a 

 highly finished study of a draped male figui-e on the reverse ; pen and sepia. 



Giordano, Luca. Siudy for the picture of the Sleejiing Bacchus; sepia. 



Gozzoli, Benozzo. Vision of St. Fina ; pen. 



Gozzoli, Benozzo (attributed to). Two studies for a picture of the Dispute of the 

 Doctors formerly in the Cathedral at Pisa ; pen and ink. 



Liberale da Verona. Study for the head of St. Mary Magdalene ; crayons, tinted. 



Venetian School. A boar hunt ; red chalk. 



Vianelli, N. Piazza Montauari, Rome; sepia. 



Peruzzi, Haldassare. Sheet of studies of the Virgin and Child ; pen. 



Pollaiuolo, Antonio. Three studies of nude male figui'es ; pen, on vellum. 



Porta. Baccio della, called Fra Bartolommeo. Studies of three figures, one seated ; 

 red chalk. 



Bobusti, Jacopo, called 'Tintoretto. Ten studies from a bust of Vitellius ; black chalk. 



Rosso, II. Christ led to Calvaiy ; pen and distemper. 



Signorelli, Luca. Sceue from Dante's Inferno, canto xxiv ; black chalk. Figures of 

 St. John and others, for the picture of the Crucifixion at Borgo San Sepolcro ; black 

 chalk. 



'I'iepolo, Giovanni Battista. Profile head of an old man ; watercolours. Dido receiv- 

 ing Aeneas ; pen, tinted. 



Tiepolo, Giovanni Domenico. Ten drawings of gronjjs of centaurs and satyrs ; pen 

 and Indian ink. 



Trivellini, Francesco. The Deposition; pen, washed with Indian ink. 



Tura, Cosimo. The Virgin and Child enthroned, with Sts. Sebastian and Agatha and 

 two monastic saints ; pen and sepia. 



Euffravinffs. 



Crivellari, Barlolommco. Division of the elect from the reprobate ; after P. Tibaldi. 

 St. John baptizing in the wilderness; after P. Tib;ddi. " Felsina Studiorum Mater"; 

 after J. B. Aloretti. 



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