Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Outfit
ca. 1900
Cincinnati Regalia Co.
USA: Ohio, Cincinnati
Paper, watercolor
14 x 10 in.
Special Acquisitions Fund
88.42.156.37

Original drawing from a fraternal supply company. Full-length illustration of a man wearing a purple fez with “—IRA” and a stag’s head. He also wears a grey bow tie, white high-collared shirt, a purple knee-length coat, beige pants, and black dress shoes. Figure has photographic cut-out face.

In this drawing the model wears a purple evening wear suit and a Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks fez. In some catalog illustrations, every detail was drawn by hand. In others, like this one, an artist inserted a photograph of a face into the drawing and colored the lips, cheeks, eyebrows, and hair by hand to add visual interest to the face.