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![[Untitled Masonic Broadsheet.]](jpegs/4137.jpg)
[Untitled Masonic Broadsheet.]
[n.d., c.1800.]
Engraving, 570 x 445mm. Laid on linen but lifting, three burn holes through paper and linen, other signs of use.
A masonic esoteric broadsheet, with vignette scenes around a central pentagram.
[Ref: 4137] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1800.]
Engraving, 570 x 445mm. Laid on linen but lifting, three burn holes through paper and linen, other signs of use.
A masonic esoteric broadsheet, with vignette scenes around a central pentagram.
[Ref: 4137] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
![[Masonic allegory of the Seven Sciences.] Septemplex Sororum Vitae.](jpegs/60966.jpg)
[Masonic allegory of the Seven Sciences.] Septemplex Sororum Vitae.
E. Spry M.D. inv. & del. I. Jehner fecit. F.A. c:A: & S:P.Di.
Artium & Scientiaru, Plimuthi-dock Academiam Institit & fundavit Cal: An: MDCCLXXXV [1785].
Mezzotint. 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Narrow margins, some creasing and surface wear, laid on album paper.
An extremely rare masonic plate, with a central image of Minerva and a cockerel, a portrait of Dr Edward Spry (the artist), a list of the masonic Seven Sciences (Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric, Arithmetic, Geometry, Astronomy & Music) under the Eye of Providence, the rising sun, Adam and Eve, and a classical temple. On the title page of his 1785 book 'A masonic ode, prayer and grace, consecrated to the firmly and friendly united brotherhood of free-masons (thro'out the world)', Spry described himself as 'Knight Templar, and of the Eastern Star, &c'. The engraver, Isaac Jehner (or Jenner) of Exeter engraved portraits of Spry, his son (also Edward) and nephew John. The BM biography notes 'Probably a Freemason'.
Alexander: English and Irish Engravers, biography of Jenner, p.502-5. BM1864.0813.212
[Ref: 60966] £490.00
E. Spry M.D. inv. & del. I. Jehner fecit. F.A. c:A: & S:P.Di.
Artium & Scientiaru, Plimuthi-dock Academiam Institit & fundavit Cal: An: MDCCLXXXV [1785].
Mezzotint. 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). Narrow margins, some creasing and surface wear, laid on album paper.
An extremely rare masonic plate, with a central image of Minerva and a cockerel, a portrait of Dr Edward Spry (the artist), a list of the masonic Seven Sciences (Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric, Arithmetic, Geometry, Astronomy & Music) under the Eye of Providence, the rising sun, Adam and Eve, and a classical temple. On the title page of his 1785 book 'A masonic ode, prayer and grace, consecrated to the firmly and friendly united brotherhood of free-masons (thro'out the world)', Spry described himself as 'Knight Templar, and of the Eastern Star, &c'. The engraver, Isaac Jehner (or Jenner) of Exeter engraved portraits of Spry, his son (also Edward) and nephew John. The BM biography notes 'Probably a Freemason'.
Alexander: English and Irish Engravers, biography of Jenner, p.502-5. BM1864.0813.212
[Ref: 60966] £490.00
Keep Within Compass And You Shall be Sure, To Avoid Many Troubles Which Others Endure. Industry Produceth Wealth. [&] Keep Within Compass And You Shall be Sure, To Avoid Many Troubles Which Others Endure. Prudence Produceth Esteem.
[After Robert Dighton] Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles, N.o 69 S.t Paul's Church Yard, London.
Published as the Act directs 9 Nov.r 1784 [& 16 Aug. 1785].
Scarce pair of mezzotints with hand colour. Each 350 x 250mm (14 x 10"). Framed. Time stained, faded colour, some damage, Unexamined out of matching 19th century frames.
Portraits of two righteous people, standing underneath the arc of an extended pair of compasses with 'Fear God' on the cross bar, with moneybags at the feet of the man and 'Rewards of Virtue' at the feet of the woman. In the corners are scenes of wantonness and its just rewards. The compass is one of the great symbols of freemasonary.
BM Satires 6903 & 6907.
[Ref: 60771] £1,200.00 view all images for this item
[After Robert Dighton] Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles, N.o 69 S.t Paul's Church Yard, London.
Published as the Act directs 9 Nov.r 1784 [& 16 Aug. 1785].
Scarce pair of mezzotints with hand colour. Each 350 x 250mm (14 x 10"). Framed. Time stained, faded colour, some damage, Unexamined out of matching 19th century frames.
Portraits of two righteous people, standing underneath the arc of an extended pair of compasses with 'Fear God' on the cross bar, with moneybags at the feet of the man and 'Rewards of Virtue' at the feet of the woman. In the corners are scenes of wantonness and its just rewards. The compass is one of the great symbols of freemasonary.
BM Satires 6903 & 6907.
[Ref: 60771] £1,200.00 view all images for this item
To the Worthy Brethren of the most Ancient & Noble Order of Bucks. This Plate is most humbly inscribed by a Brother.
H. Capland sc Gutter Lane, London.
[London: Printed for Rob.t Sayer, Map and Printseller at the Golden Buck near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street.] [n.d., c.1785.]
Engraving with fine 18th century hand colour, cut out around main image and laid on album paper. Album sheet 380 x 255mm (15 x 10").
A rococco design featuring a stag flanked by two foresters with bugle horns, with various mottos including 'Unanimity is the Strength of Society’, 'Industry Produceth Wealth', 'Innocence with Freedom', 'Be Merry & Wise'. This is probably a membership certificate. The Ancient and Noble Order of Bucks, a fraternal and convivial club that claimed Nimrod ('the mighty hunter' described in Genesis X, 8-9) as its founder, was once the leading rival to Freemasonry in Britain, existing from c.1739 to 1818.
[Ref: 60787] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
H. Capland sc Gutter Lane, London.
[London: Printed for Rob.t Sayer, Map and Printseller at the Golden Buck near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street.] [n.d., c.1785.]
Engraving with fine 18th century hand colour, cut out around main image and laid on album paper. Album sheet 380 x 255mm (15 x 10").
A rococco design featuring a stag flanked by two foresters with bugle horns, with various mottos including 'Unanimity is the Strength of Society’, 'Industry Produceth Wealth', 'Innocence with Freedom', 'Be Merry & Wise'. This is probably a membership certificate. The Ancient and Noble Order of Bucks, a fraternal and convivial club that claimed Nimrod ('the mighty hunter' described in Genesis X, 8-9) as its founder, was once the leading rival to Freemasonry in Britain, existing from c.1739 to 1818.
[Ref: 60787] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)