Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & LibraryObjects
A Front View of the Temple of Solomon with its Holy Vessels
ca. 1724 or ca. 1794
Maker not marked
USA
Engraving on paper with watercolor
overall: 23-3/4"h x 35-1/2"w
Gift of Union Lodge, Ancient Free & Accepted Masons, Dorchester, Massachusetts
75.46.16
ca. 1724 or ca. 1794
Maker not marked
USA
Engraving on paper with watercolor
overall: 23-3/4"h x 35-1/2"w
Gift of Union Lodge, Ancient Free & Accepted Masons, Dorchester, Massachusetts
75.46.16
A Front View of the Temple of Solomon with its Holy Vessels; hand-colored copper plate engraving--four sheets, pasted together, largest 17 1/2" x 18"; four smaller views below; described as "A front view of the Temple of Solomon with its Holy Vessels,"; also the "Tabernacle of Moses with its appertanences taken from the model erected at Hamborough {Hamburg}at the expense of the learned and judicious councellor Schott / the model (which was 15 years bringing perfection) is esteemed a Complete Masterpiece and has not its like in the Universe, there being about 6700 Pillars and 1500 Chambers and Windows in proportion." [Tracing of watermark on the paper is in object file and attached to this record as a PDF. 2-2019; "J WHATMAN / 1794"]