Free-Masons Hall [graphic]

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Title: Free-Masons Hall [graphic]
Creator: Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815, printmaker
Contributor: Cipriani, Giovanni Battista, 1727-1785.
Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809.
Fittler, James, 1758-1835.
Published / Created: 1786.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd as the act directs by the society of free masons, at their hall in Great Queen Street, Lincolns Inn Fields
Abstract: "Free-Masons Hall; Truth standing on clouds, holding a mirror in her right hand; rays of lights from the mirror shinning down in the hall; Wisdom, Hope, Charity and three children, seated around Truth; a winged figure holding a torch in his right hand, descending from the clouds; in foreground, a celestial sphere, a terrestrial sphere, a compass and other Masonic instruments on a table; by its side, a candle and an armillary sphere on the floor; after Cipriani and Sandby; illustration to 'Constitutions of Masonry' (London: 1785?); working proof, scracthed with artists' names."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from image.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
On page numbered 53 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
Provenance: Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Holland Brothers, Birmingham; March 1958.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 33.0 x 24 cm
Language: English

Genre: Engravings England London
Tickets
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Material: engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > London
18th century

Access: Public
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