Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Masonic Memorial
1860
Duval and Duval (lithographers); Thomas Phenix; Christian Inger (artist)
USA: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Colored lithograph on paper
sheet: 22"h x 29-3/4"w
Special Acquisitions Fund
77.13.1a

Masonic Memorial lithograph; scene of notables such as George Washington, Lafayette, Jefferson, in Masonic aprons (white with blue borders) in Independence Hall, Philadelphia. Washington's apron has a design with an archway supported by two columns, an all-seeing eye, a coffin and other Masonic symbols. Many portraits on the back wall. At center back is a large eagle on a globe with a banner in its beak. The globe reads, "America" and the banner reads, "E Pluribus Unum." There is a second eagle visible at back right. Along the bottom is text reading "Masonic Memorial / Ch. Inger, del / Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1860 by Thomas Phenix in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania./ [illeg.]/ Lith. Duval & Duval, Phila."