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![[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