# Prints and Drawings ## Prints and Photographs accessioned before 1918 Some prints and photographs were accessioned, probably by the library rather than museum, before 1918, in a sequence P1 to P1874: WA/HMM/IC/1/4. Not to be confused with paintings registered in the museum [(old) registration system](https://docs.wellcomecollection.org/transcribe-wellcome/researching-the-museum-and-library/documentation-systems/old-registration-system) with a P prefix. ## PD and PD Year Numbers Batch accessioning of prints and drawings, some retrospective, begun by C. A. Earnshaw in February 1936 and continued by others up to 1982. Initially sequential; later reverts to 1-1 each new year. Registers: PD 1 to PD 391 (WA/HMM/IC/1/28-31); Gap 1938 to 1959; PD 1959-1-1 to PD 1982-14 (WA/HMM/IC/1/32) ## PR Numbers Prints, mostly portraits; series constructed by Pender-Davidson between 1928 and 1933. Registers PR 1 to PR 1104 (WA/HMM/IC/1/7). Later registers are missing but provenance details for PR1 to PR26508 were reconstructed by Earnshaw (with some gaps) in a report in WA/HMM/RP/Sta/3. ## Later documentation of prints ### 1981 to 2000 Paintings and prints were accessioned into the [library accession registers](https://docs.wellcomecollection.org/transcribe-wellcome/researching-the-museum-and-library/documentation-systems/library-accessions) from December 1981 to December 2000. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.wellcomecollection.org/transcribe-wellcome/research/documentation-systems/prints-and-drawings.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.