the first floor of the Museum Building, the following eightyone Etchings and Engravings: "Country Neighbors," by BUHOT; two Landscapes (presentation proofs), by C. FONCE; "Westminster Abbey," by GAUTIER; "Challow Farm," "A Water Meadow," "Lady Reading," "A Lancashire River," "Dundrum River," "Early Morning, Richmond Park," "Kensington Gardens," "Kensington Gardens" (the smaller plate), "Mytton Hall," "Nine Barrow Downs," "Old Chelsea Church," "Purfleet,” "Shere Millpond," "Sunset in Ireland," "Sunset on the Thames," "The Agamemnon," "Whistler's House,” “Old Chelsea," "Windmill Hill No. 1," "Windmill Hill No. 2," "Windsor Castle" and "The Village Ford," by SEYMOUR HADEN; "Le Sortie," and "Sheepfold," by CHARLES JACQUE; "View of Paris," by MAXIME LALANNE; “Landscape" and "Landscape in Sunshine-man reclining ;" "Landscape with Poplars," Portrait, "Carlyle," "The Storm," "The Woodcutters," by A. LEGROS; "Darwin," by G. MERCIER; "Le Pont au Change," (The Exchange Bridge); "Going to Work," and "The Carder," by J. F. MILLET; "Early Ploughman," "The Herdsman," and "Opening of the Fold," by SAMUEL PALMER; Portrait, "John Stuart Mill," after Portrait by G. F. WATTS; Portrait, "Mrs. Rose," and Portrait, "Tennyson," by RAJON; "Angel Appearing to the Shepherds," "Blind Tobit," "Death of the Virgin," "Dr. Faustus," "The Sacrifice of Isaac," and "The Three Trees," by REMBRANDT; "Portrait," by GEORGE F. SCHMIDT; Portrait, "Old Man," after REMBRANDT; "The Windmill," by VAN GRAVESANDE; two "Landscapes," by J. VEYRASSAT; "Lady Reading," "Nocturne, Venice," "Palaces," "The Balcony," "The Beggars," "The Bridge," "The Doorway," "The Kitchen," "The Traghetto," "Two Doorways" and "Upright Venice," by WHISTLER; "Le Bouvier," by CLAUDE LORRAINE; Portrait of "Daniel Webster," by G. KRUELL; "Madonna of Silence," by F. BARTOLOZzı ; "The Storm," after DIAZ, by TH. CHAUVEL; "Portrait of Bossuet," by PIERRE DREVET; "Adam and Eve," by ALBERT DÜRER, "Moses with the Tables of the Law," by EDELINCK; "Portrait," by HENDRICK GOLTIUS; "Modern Italy," after TURNER, by WILLIAM MILLER; Portrait of "Pomponius de Bellieure," by ROBERT NANTEUIL; "Doctors of the Church," by SHARP; "Gellius de Bourma," by C. VISCHER; "Traveling Musicians," by J. G. WILLE; “Roman Edifices in Ruins," after CLAUDE LORRAINE; Portrait of "Rembrandt," by C. WALTNER. These etchings and engravings were placed on exhibition in October, 1898, and are still on exhibition. Loans to the Collections of the Department have been received during the year as follows: From Mrs. WYATT EATON: A life mask of ABRAHAM LINCOLN. From Mr. CLAYTON L. MOAK: One complete set of tea service, and cabinet to contain the same, in Chinese carved red lacquer; a carnelian mask and an intaglio gem, an enameled Egyptian amulet, a Japanese sword rest, two boat-shaped saucers of Pekin enamel on copper, floral designs, a black lacquer cabinet with gold applique ornament, a perfume box of carved red lacquer, an oblong bowl of carved Cinnabar lacquer, a brown lacquer plaque with carved geometrical design, and a sectional box in carved red lacquer with decoration of lotus flowers in different stages of bloom. From the Rev. J. J. BANBURY: Six carved Chinese idols of wood, one bronze and brass figure and four bronze figures of Chinese manufacture, twenty-three pieces of rare Chinese porcelain, and one Chinese bell of bronze. LANTERN SLIDES. The Trustees have, during the past season, authorized the preparation of a collection of lantern slides to illustrate the history, art, civilization and modern characteristics of the countries of the ancient Oriental world, viz., Mesopotamia Syria, Egypt, and Cyprus. Eight hundred slides have been procured, which are distributed as follows: For Chaldea and Assyria, 63; for Syria, 185; for Egypt, 507; for Cyprus, 45. Outside of the Chaldean, Assyrian, and Cypriote subjects nearly all of the slides obtained were colored to order. The quality of these colored slides has been recognized by the audiences which saw them on the screen at the Museum lectures, and by experts in general, as exceptionally fine, and in certain styles and fields of work as unrivaled. For purposes of accurate instruction this coloring has proved itself almost indispensable. The authorities of the Columbia University Library loaned to the Museum, for the purpose of slide reproduction, its magnificent folios of colored plates for Egyptian Art, prepared as a French Government publication by Monsieur Prisse d'Avennes. These plates show the original Egyptian coloring in ornamental decoration, in architectural details, and in the old frescoes and tomb paintings, and these plates have been reproduced on glass slides with marvelous fidelity. The limitation of subjects to the field of ancient Oriental Art and of the modern East Mediterranean world is due to a similar limitation in the field covered by the Museum lectures of this past season. Within this field the choice of subjects covers not only ancient Oriental Art in the narrower sense, but also the daily life of Antiquity in every field available for illustration. For the given countries equal attention has been paid, in the choice of subjects, to their modern life and culture, landscape scenery, and physical geography. LIBRARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF FINE ARTS. Additions to the Library of the Department of Fine Arts have been made through the year as follows: |