print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1935,0522.8.76.b
- Title
- Object: How to make a mason
- Description
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See BMSat 10332. A travesty of Free Masonry. A terrified man kneels with bared posteriors, his wrists tied to two columns of composite order. These are surmounted by balls and hung by masonic symbols, a level, and plumb-rule. His ankles are chained to rings in the floor. The master sits behind a little covered rostrum; his two wardens, wearing aprons, &c, are on each side of the victim. One (l.) is about to apply a branding-iron with the letters FM. (reversed). The other holds a staff. Other symbols engraved over the heads of the Masons are: sun (centre), square and compasses (l.), moon (r.). 2 January 1804
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1804
- Dimensions
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Height: 197 millimetres (cropped)
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Width: 222 millimetres (cropped)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VIII, 1947)
'Caricatures', viii. 76.
(Supplementary information)
As George suggests, this imprint is perhaps a reissue of a plate published by Howitt in 1801.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1935
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1935,0522.8.76.b