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



The collection of prints after Van Dyck has been re-arranged, those belonging to the 

 series known as the " Iconogvaphie," and described by Wibiral, being taken out to be 

 incorporated with that series. 



The collection of prints after Italian Masters has been re-arranged in one alphabetical 

 series. 



The collections of ])rints after Velazquez and Murillo have been re-arranged, and 

 marked off in Curtis's published catalogue. 



The collection of Italian Woodcuts has been re-arranged. 



The supplementary series of the works of Hans Sebald Beham has been mounted ii? 

 ♦he guardbooks with the main collection. 



The collection of portraits of Shakspeare has been sorted, and classified according to 

 types. 



The collection of photographs by Braun of Oornach, from drawings by Italian IMasters 

 in various collections, and from sculptures at Rome and Florence, has been marked off in 

 Messrs. Braun's published catalogue, and deposited in the standard cases in the new 

 exhibition room. 



The collection of pamphlets, hitherto preserved in a series of small solander cases, has 

 been arranged for binding in volumes. 



The English portraits belonging to Classes III. and IV. (Gentry and Clergy), 

 included in the supplementaiy series, have been taken out and incorporated with the 

 main collection. Three thousand eight hundred and sixty-three titles have been written 

 for the new general index. 



The general index of artists represented in the department has been continued and 

 completed ; three hundred and eighty-nine titles have been written for it. 



Two thousand six hundred and forty titles have been written for the new catalogue of 

 the Library of Reference. 



One hundred and twenty English mezzotints have been entered in the MS. catalogue 

 of the collection. 



The identification, by references written in an interleaved copy of Chaloner Smith's 

 " British Mezzotinto Portraits," of all the mezzotints in the collection which are described 

 in that work, has been completed. 



One thousand eight hundred and seventeen prints and drawings have been incorporated 

 with the oollections to which they severally belong. 



Loan collections of duplicate engravings have been lent to and returned by the com- 

 mittees of the Saltaire and Dudley Jubilt-e Exhibitions. 



One thousand nine hundred and forty-five items have been entered in the Register of 

 acquisitions. 



Five thousand seven hundred and forty-eight prints, drawings, etc., have been impressed 

 with the departmental stamp, and references to the Register. 



Five hundred and sixty-seven drawings and prints have been placed on sunk mounts, 

 and four hundred and fifty-two have been mounted in the ordinary manner. 



II. Additions. 



The total number of drawings, prints, &c., acquired during the year was 3,335, of 

 which the following are the most important : — 



Italian School. 

 Drawings. 



Anonymous, Ferrarese School ( ? Ercole di Roberto Grandi). Rehoboam and the 

 elders ; black chalk, washed and heightened with white. 



Bella, Stefano della. Fifty-eight designs for characters in a masque ; pen, Indian ink, 

 and water-colour. 



Bianchi, Baccio del. Thirty-one similar designs; pen and watercolours. 



Buonarroti, Michelangelo. Study for the figure of Isaiah on the ceiling of the Sistine 

 Chapel ; drawn with a reed pen ; on reverse is a drawing of a scene in a Roman Judg- 

 ment Hall, by another and later hand, in pen and sepia. Study for the figure with averted 

 head in the Cartoon of Pisa ; pen, heightened with white ; on the reverse are various 

 studies in red chalk for other figures in the cartoon ; from the Lawrence collection. 

 Study, apparently from one of the ancient statues on Monte Cavallo, Rome; ])en; on 

 the reverse are eight pen studies of a figure of a child, supposed to be for the sculptured 

 grouj) of the Virgin and Child at Bruges ; from Lawrence collection. Study of drapery 

 for the figure of the Erythrean Sibyl on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel ; pen ; Irom 

 Lawrence collection Study for a figure of Christ rising from the sepulchre ; pencil and 

 black chalk ; from Lawrence and King of Holland's collections. AIL presented by Henry 

 Vavffhaii, Esq. ^ 



Buonarroti, Michelungelo (attributed to). Head of Cleopatra ; black chalk ; from 

 Lawrence collection. Presented by Henry Vaughan, Esq. 



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