Museo Fiorentino Che Contiene I Ritratti De' Pittori: Consacrato Alla Sacra Cesarea Maestà Dell'Augustissimo Francesco I. Imperadore De' Romani Re Di Gerusalemme E Di Germania Duca Di Lorena E Di Bar Granduca Di Toscana ec. ec. ec.
This 1752 Florentine volume, the Museo Fiorentino, was edited by Francesco Moücke and printed in Florence for Emperor Francis I of Lorraine, the Grand Duke of Tuscany, and holds engraved portraits of painters. The pictures are bust-length engraved likenesses of men in sixteenth and seventeenth century dress, set against plain dark grounds with fine hatched shading, showing collars, caps, beards, and held objects like a book, letter, or pen as useful cues for period costume and gesture in a designer's portrait layout.
