Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Portrait of Jeremy Ladd Cross (1783-1860)
1818
George Munger (1781-1825)
USA: Connecticut, New Haven
Ivory, glass, velvet, metal, paper, composite, paint
a: 3-1/4"h x 2-1.4"w x 1/8"d; b-c: 5"h x 4"w x 1"d
Loaned by the Grand Lodge of Masons in Massachusetts
GL2004.2469a-c

a) Portrait on ivory, showing seated man wearing blue jacket, black vest, and white shirt with Masonic pendant of square, compasses and arc at neck; facing proper right, with brown hair and sideburns. Signed lower right "Geo. Munger / July 1818"; in pencil and ink on back is "Jeremy L. Cross / Geo. Munger / New Haven / July 1818". Ivory slice has paper backing taped to glass cover over painting; b & c) black composite (not plastic but some unknown material) daguerreotype case, with the bottom half of case broken into two pieces; inside is black velvet lining and velvet mat over painting; underneath velvet is torn label reading in part "A. P. Critchlow & Co., / Manufacturers of / Daguerreotype Cases...Patended April 21, 1857.

For further information, see Newell, Aimee, et.al., "Curiosities of the Craft: Treasures from the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts Collection", 2013, p. 96-97.