The freemasons surpriz'd, or, The secret discover'd a true tale from a masons' lodge in Canterbury. [graphic]

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Title: The freemasons surpriz'd, or, The secret discover'd a true tale from a masons' lodge in Canterbury. [graphic]
Alternative Title: Secret discover'd
Secret discovered
Freemasons surprised
Contributor: Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793, publisher.
Published / Created: [not before 1764]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for Carington Bowles at No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Description: Title from item.
Publication date from Carington Bowles's entry in Maxted, I. London book trades, 1775-1800.
In lower right corner: Price 6d, cold. 1s.
Five columns of verse below title: The chamber maid Moll, a girl very fat, lay hid in a garret as sly as a cat ...
Cf. No. 3796 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3.
Temporary local subject terms: Freemasonry -- Freemasons: Canterbury Lodge -- Secret meetings -- Clergy: parson -- Domestic service: chambermaid -- Accidents -- Furniture: chairs -- Emblems: freemasons symbols -- Lighting: candleholders -- Smoking pipes -- Architectural details: lath construction -- Dishes: punch bowl -- Maps: wall map of the world.
Watermark: countermark I W.
Mounted to 31 x 46 cm.
Provenance: Sotheby's, Nov., 1997, lot 541; Dec. 1997;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 24.8 x 35.2 cm, on sheet 26 x 37 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1764
Etchings England London 1764
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching with engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1764
England > London > 1764

Access: Public
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