. Annual report for the year ended June 30 .... United States National Museum. ACCESSIONS 57 Mrs. George Hewitt Myers presented 48 pieces of Castleford porce- lain, made in England between 1790 and 1820. Among these rare items are teapots and pitchers decorated with an American eagle after the design of contemporary coins. The division of graphic arts acquired an important group of fine prints. The selection of these examples by outstanding printmakers from the year 1500 to the present day made it possible to fill a number of significant gaps in the collection. The prints include an engraving
. Annual report for the year ended June 30 .... United States National Museum. ACCESSIONS 57 Mrs. George Hewitt Myers presented 48 pieces of Castleford porce- lain, made in England between 1790 and 1820. Among these rare items are teapots and pitchers decorated with an American eagle after the design of contemporary coins. The division of graphic arts acquired an important group of fine prints. The selection of these examples by outstanding printmakers from the year 1500 to the present day made it possible to fill a number of significant gaps in the collection. The prints include an engraving by the Italian renaissance master, Marcantonio Raimondi, St. Cecelia; two prints by important French artists of the turn of the 20th century—a lithograph by Edouard Manet, La barricade, and a color lithograph by Edouard Vuillard, Les deux belles soeurs; and p^H. ''Landscape with Flock of Sheep/' etching by Rembrandt Van Rijn (1606- 1669) added to Graphic Arts collection. an exceptionally fine impression of an etching by Rembrandt van Rijn, Landscape with a flock oj sheep. Max Levy & Co., Philadelphia, through Howard S. Levy, presented a 50-line halftone screen; R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co., Chicago, through Walter L. Howe, gave a panel describing the rotogravure process; and the firm of Edgerton, Germeshausen & Grier, Inc., Boston, donated the first battery- operated portable electronic flash unit, invented by Dr. Harold E. Edgerton. The division of textiles obtained from Ai-thur E. WuUschleger an 18-century French hand-and-foot treadle loom to which a Jacquard head had been added m the second quarter of the 19th centmy. Air. WuUschleger collected the loom in Lyons, France, and it was reno- vated at Wedgewood Mills, Jewett City, Conn. An excellent model of the 1787 patent of Cart\viight's power loom, an invention un- represented in the national collection, was made by Robert Klinger of the exhibits staff. A fine collection of 46 18th- and 19th-centm'y. Please note t
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