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The Library And Museum Of The Grand Lodge Of England.
The Library and Museum of the Grand Lodge of England .
cTtieir Origin and Progress . —( Continued . ) BY HEXRY SADLER . POKTKAITS OF FKKKMASOXS AXI ) pRIXTS KELATIXG TO Al . ASOXKV .
IN 186 9 the number of engraved portraits and prints belonging to the Grand Lodge was less than a dozen , they 1 may now be counted by hundreds , some few of which , being rare and valuable , are framed and hung on the walls of the various rooms , but many more are preserved in scrap books and portfolios in the Library .
out of the Library allowance . It has always been a source of deep regret to the writer , that in days gone by , he has been unable to add many others that ought to be in the possession of the Grand Lodge , for want of funds , and that they have now found a home across the Atlantic . Thanks , however , to the liberality of the Grand Chapter , we may
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AO attempt lias yet been made to catalogue them , hence it is somewhat difficult to estimate , even approximately , their number . Some of these have been presented by various brethren , but a great majority of them have been purchased
reasonably hope that such cases will be less frequent in the future . We will not attempt a description of any one of these works of art , suffice it to say that the collection includes many valuable old engraved portraits of former
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Library And Museum Of The Grand Lodge Of England.
The Library and Museum of the Grand Lodge of England .
cTtieir Origin and Progress . —( Continued . ) BY HEXRY SADLER . POKTKAITS OF FKKKMASOXS AXI ) pRIXTS KELATIXG TO Al . ASOXKV .
IN 186 9 the number of engraved portraits and prints belonging to the Grand Lodge was less than a dozen , they 1 may now be counted by hundreds , some few of which , being rare and valuable , are framed and hung on the walls of the various rooms , but many more are preserved in scrap books and portfolios in the Library .
out of the Library allowance . It has always been a source of deep regret to the writer , that in days gone by , he has been unable to add many others that ought to be in the possession of the Grand Lodge , for want of funds , and that they have now found a home across the Atlantic . Thanks , however , to the liberality of the Grand Chapter , we may
i-i : n . vi'JM'ji-: n-: TO THK , \ c , \ in-: jiy OK AIOIOIIY , \ . \ I > KJ . AZOX , luxnt . i-: HOLME , \ W . '' ''"'" ''' ''' " ' ''" '" '"" COi ) lti-tliicit J ' , i ,-rt , i , ' , te , ,.,-i , i ; , i , il tht- in it ,,- ] ,, * UK * 7 J .
AO attempt lias yet been made to catalogue them , hence it is somewhat difficult to estimate , even approximately , their number . Some of these have been presented by various brethren , but a great majority of them have been purchased
reasonably hope that such cases will be less frequent in the future . We will not attempt a description of any one of these works of art , suffice it to say that the collection includes many valuable old engraved portraits of former