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Washington as a Freemason : commander of the American Army, 1775 ; President of the United States, 1789 ; initiated, November 4th 1752, in Fredericksburg, Lodge No. 4, Virginia ; passed, March 3rd 1753 ; raised, August 4th 1753
Title
Washington as a Freemason : commander of the American Army, 1775 ; President of the United States, 1789 ; initiated, November 4th 1752, in Fredericksburg, Lodge No. 4, Virginia ; passed, March 3rd 1753 ; raised, August 4th 1753.
Publication
Cin. O. [Cincinnati, Ohio] : J.H. Powers & Co., Fraternity, publishers, [1870]
Manufacture
Strobridge & Co. Litho
Copyright Notice Date
©1870
Physical Description
1 print : chromolithograph ; 50.8 x 44 cm
Medium
paper
ink
lithography
Local Notes
BEIN BrSides Folio 2019 245: On sheet 60.2 x 48.4 cm. Forms part of the Benjamin Franklin Collection.
Notes
Title from caption.
At foot of sheet: Entered according to act of Congress by Strobridge & Co. in the year 1870 in the clerks office of the U.S. DIstrict Court of the Southern District of Ohio.
Summary
Full-length standing portrait of George Washington in Masonic regalia; in between two columns wearing a freemason apron with the all seeing eye and collar, and holding a trowel in his right hand and in his left hand a gavel resting on a sheet of paper inscribed "The grand object of masonry is to promote the happiness of the Human Race." Surrounded by seven vignettes of Masonic imagery; oval bust-length portraits of the Marquis de Lafayette and Andrew Jackson at upper left and right.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 14, 2022
Subjects
Genre/Form
Chromolithographs.
Portraits.
Also listed under
Strobridge & Co. Lith., publisher.
J.H. Powers & Co., publisher.
Benjamin Franklin Collection (Yale University. Library)
United States Ohio Cincinnati.
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