Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Washington as a Freemason
1857
Middleton Wallace and Co.
USA: Ohio, Cincinnati
Lithograph on paper
overall: 23-1/2"h x 20"w
Special Acquisitions Fund
88.42.154

Washington as a Freemason lithograph; scene of George Washington standing under arch flanked by columns wearing a Masonic apron holding a trowel and scroll of paper, reads "The grand object of / Masonry is to promote / the happiness of the / Human Race. / Washington"; two vignettes on wall of people in outdoors; vignettes of Father Time with broken column and Jacob's ladder; portraits of Andrew Jackson and Marquis de Lafayette; level, plumb, Bible, circle, and Euclid's 47th theorem; over arch reads "WASHINGTON as a FREEMASON"; ribbon on left column reads "BROTHERLY / LOVE / RELIEF / TRUTH / FRIENDSHIP"; right column reads "TEMPERANCE / FORTITUDE / PRUDENCE / JUSTICE / CHARITY"; base of left column reads "BORN / FEB. 22 / A.D. 1732."; right column reads "DIED / DEC. 14. / A.D. 1790.'; step Washington standing on reads "MADE A MASON 1752, COMMANDER OF THE AMERICAN ARMY, 1775. PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, 1789."; front of step reads in part "DISTURB NOT HIS SLUMBERS, LET WASHINGTON SLEEP..."; reads on bottom "Entered According to Act of Congress in the year 1857 in the clerk's Office of the southern district of Ohio by Middleton, Wallace 7 Co, Cincinatti, O."