Original drawings by old masters of the schools of North Italy : in the collection of J.P.H
A London collotype-style facsimile album from 1906 by the Autotype Fine Art Company, reproducing Italian drawings by old masters of northern Italy from the collection of J. P. Heseltine. The plates present each drawing as a single sheet on a wide cream page, mounted with a thin border, so the marks of pen, wash and chalk are visible. A designer could take from them the looseness of preparatory sketching, with quick figure groupings, hatched shading and sparse setting that suggest composition rather than finish.
