A Florentine picture-chronicle; being a series of ninety-nine drawings representing scenes and personages of ancient history, sacred and profane
A facsimile of a Florentine picture-chronicle of ninety-nine drawings of ancient history, sacred and profane, attributed to the goldsmith Maso Finiguerra and published in London in 1898 by B. Quaritch, edited by Sidney Colvin for collectors and art scholars. The pictures are pen-and-ink drawings with brown wash on pale paper, each showing a single armoured or robed figure in a stone setting with labels naming the person, such as Julius Caesar, Hector and Alexander. For designers, they offer a model of compact figure-and-setting composition and of hatched linework used for costume detail.
