Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

A Meeting of Free Masons for the Admission of Masters
1812
Thomas Palser, publisher (active 1799-1843)
England: London
Engraving with multi-colored washes on paper
sheet: 9"h x 13"w
Special Acquisitions Fund
77.10.1e

A Meeting of Free Masons for the Admission of Masters engraving; scene shows candidate laid on device on floor; across bottom figures are identified: "1 The Master, 2 Senior Warden, 3 Junior Warden, 4 Candidate, 5,6,7, Candidates waiting to undergo same ceremony; (Printed plate No. has been obliterated; written in pencil "No. 6" "A Meeting of Free Masons for the Admission of Masters/ The Candidate being laid on the Device painted on the floor of the Lodge& his Face covered with a bloody Cloth/ The Officers during an Address from the Master present their drawn swords to different parts of the Candidates body/ Published March 1, 1812 by Thos Palser, Surry Side, Westminster Bridge."