• Unknown, Italy, first half of the 19th century (lithographer)
• Unknown, Italy, first half of the 19th century (draughtsman)
• Légation de Toscane à Paris (correspondence writer)
• Charles Rohault de Fleury (correspondence writer)
• Vincenzio Antinori (correspondence writer)
• Giuseppe Martelli (architect)
• Gaspare Maria Paoletti (architect)
• Leopoldo II, Grand-Duke of Tuscany (patron)

Presentation album of prints of the Museo di fisica e storia naturelle, Florence

printed between 1845 and 1846, manuscripts written 1846

- This album contains four folios of text in Italian concerning the history and architecture of the Museo di fiscia e storia naturale, Florence. The names of the museum's patrons and the parts of the museum have been inserted by a contemporary hand on the lithographs in pen and black ink. The text is followed by ten lithographs, including a perspectival view of the museum, four general plans, two sections, and more detailed sections, plans and elevations of the Tribuna de Galileo designed by Giuseppe Martelli and the Osservatorio Astronomico designed by Gaspero Paoletti. Also included in the album are four manuscripts, all in French: a letter presenting the album to Rohault de Fleury from Vincenzio Antinori, the director of the museum, a transcript of Rohault de Fleury's letters of thanks to Antorini and to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, a note from the Légation de Toscanne in Paris concerning the presentation of the album, and a booklet containing Rohault de Fleury's translation of the album text into French.

• record drawings
• presentation drawings

Manuscripts include pen and brown and black ink on wove or laid paper

album: 46.30 X 59.50 cm sheet (smallest): 26.1 x 40.1 cm (10 1/4 x 15 13/16 in.) sheet (largest): 27 x 42 cm (10 5/8 x 16 9/16 in.) folios (approx.): 45.3 x 58.5 cm (17 13/16 x 23 1/16 in.)

DR1974:0002:005:001-018

• line drawings
• rendering

• correspondance

• pictorial drawing
• scale drawings
• plans (drawings)
• sections (orthographic drawings)
• elevations (drawings)

• general views
• partial views
• bird's-eye view
• exterior views
• interior views

- This album is bound between album boards which are covered with red cloth and have leather corners, and a leather spine stamped with decorative gold bands. The album contains 4 folios of text followed by 10 prints. Each folio is interleaved with tissue paper. Also included with the album are one letter, locally mounted, a transcript of two letters on one sheet, a note, and a booklet bound with string.

imprinted - on DR1974:0002:005:001, in letterpress printing, u.l.: "Légation / de / Toscanne à Paris." ["Légation" is inserted in pen and black ink] dated - on DR1974:0002:005:001, by the correspondent, in pen and black ink, l.c.: "Paris le 1 Juin 1846" imprinted and dated - on DR1974:0002:005:002 R/V, in letterpress printing, t.: "Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle; u.l.: "Bureau / de l'Architecte"; and u.r.: "Paris, le [9 Juin] 184[6]" [Brackets indicate insertions in pen and brown ink by the correspondent] signed and dated - on DR1974:0002:005:004, by the correspondent, in pen and brown ink, l.c.: "le 21 Avril 1846"; and l.r.: "Le Directeur / C: Antinori" inscribed - on all the prints, by the lithographer, on the plate, usually t.: with titles inscribed and numbered - on DR1974:0002:005:010 - DR1974:0002:005:013, by the lithographer, on the plate, in various locations: with a numerical key to parts of the building; and throughout: with corresponding numbers inscribed - on DR1974:0002:005:005 - DR1974:0002:005:009, by a contemporary hand, in pen and black ink, throughout: with the names of the museum's patrons and the parts of the museum

• architecture