Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

The Mysteries that are here Shown are only to a Mason Known
1755
W. Tringham
England: London
Engraving with watercolor on paper
Overall: 14"h X 10"w
Loaned by the Grand Lodge of Masons in Massachusetts
GL2004.0038

Hand colored engraving showing King Solomon drawing plans of the Temple looking up to Heaven with Father Time Mother Nature (holding scroll: "Hic Labor Hoc Opus") an Angel with trumpet (scroll reads: Masonry Universal 5755) and two cherubim with banner: "Silence and Secrecy". Landscape scenery with Masonicsymbols: five beehives, archway (reads above: "Pulsanti Aperietur", river, pyramid, Masons meeting on hillside. Below image reads: "Tringham Sculp / Price 6d PLain / Properly Couled 1:6 / The Mysteries that here are Shown / are only to a Mason known. / To the most Ancient and Honorable Soceity of Free and Accepted Masons this Plate / is humbly Inscribed by thier Affectionate Brother / Willim Tringham Hieroglyphus. / Published According to Act of Parliment 1755 By W. Tringham in Castle Allet Royal Exchange."