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Masonic Royal Arch Apron
1810-30
A. L. Shaw
USA: New York, Buffalo
Paint on silk
overall: 16-3/4"h x 18"w; on board: 18"h x 19"w
Gift of Jackson Masonic Temple Association
2009.023

Masonic Royal Arch apron; white silk with faded red ruffled edging; hand painted all-seeing eye on flap; on apron under flap "A. L. Shaw Pinxit. Buffalo."; on body is Noah's ark and dove in center surrounded by five pointed stars and Masonic symbols, square and compasses at top, casket with acacia at bottom, top left is beehive, top right is pot of incense, rose and green leaf decorative border around symbols.


In the first decades of the 1800s, many professional painters turned their skills to producing aprons, tracing boards and other objects for clients who were Masons. A. L. Shaw, who decorated this apron, advertised his or her abilities and experience noting that he or she had opened “a new painting establishment,” and undertook “all kinds of Sign and Ornamental Painting and Gilding…with neatness and dispatch. Also, Military Standards, Masonic Carpets and Aprons.” For further information, see Newell, Aimee E., "The Badge of a Freemason," 2015, p. 39.



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