A Florentine picture-chronicle being a series of ninety-nine drawings representing scenes and personages of ancient history, sacred and profane by Maso Finiguerra reproduced from the originals in the British Museum by the Imperial Press, Berlin with many minor illustrations drawn from contemporary sources and a critical and descriptive text by Sidney Colvin, M.A. Keeper of the Prints and Drawings in the British Museum
vi, 42, [162] p., 99 leaves of plates: illus.; 460 mm.
General Note
The drawings which are the subject of this work are in an album purchased from John Ruskin by the British Museum for the price he had paid in 1873. Although firmly attributed to Finiguerra at the time, these drawings are now thought to be by someone else, possibly Baccio Baldini or someone in his circle.
Three hundred copies of this work were printed by William H. Ward & Co., Holbein House, 119 Shaftesbury Avenue, London; the 99 facsimile of the original drawings were printed by the Imperial Press, Berlin.
Binding Note
The volume is bound in brown cloth with the spine lettered in gilt, 'Finiguerra's Florentine Picture Chronicle'.