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Masonic Lodge Room
1900-1915
Charles H. Dunbar Company
USA: Massachusetts, Boston
Watercolor on paper mounted on board
Mat: 26"h x 34"w; sheet: 16"h x 28"w
Special Acquisitions Fund
78.72

Masonic Lodge Room watercolor; architectural rendering, elevation, showing dais, presiding officer's chair, moldings; a variety of Masonic symbols; corinthian columns; molding, etc.; on reverse, label reads "C H Dunbar/ Company/ Fine Mural Decorations/ 46 Cornhill Boston"; hand written in ink. u.l.: "In memory of the Late Chas H Dunbar"; on "Winsor and Newton's Illustration Boards, London and New York".


This watercolor is an elevation view of decoration for a meeting room in the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts in Boston. At the center of the image are chairs for lodge officers, as well as a rendition of benches that would have been used by members. For further information, Hamilton, John D., "Material Culture of American Freemasons," 1994, p. 26