Freemasons


Famous members. Objects and symbols used by Masonic Lodges.



128 photos
Meeting between Giuseppe Garibaldi and Victor Emmanuel II on the bridge of Teano on October 26, 1860.
Mural, Sala del Risorgimento, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena.
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Meeting between Giuseppe Garibaldi and Victor Emmanuel II on the bridge of Teano...

Sir Alexander Fleming, Scottish biologist and pharmacologist, who discovered penicillin in 1928.
Canvas, 622 x 749mm; 1944.
NPG L232
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Sir Alexander Fleming, Scottish biologist and pharmacologist, who discovered pen...

A meeting of Freemasons for the reception of apprentices:
The junior warden introducing the candidate to be initiated and entered apprentice.
Lithograph published 1st March 1812, by Thomas Palser, Surry Side, Westminster Bridge.
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A meeting of Freemasons for the reception of apprentices: The junior warden int...

A meeting of Freemasons for the reception of apprentices:
The candidate placing his right hand on the Holy Bible solemly takes the oath never to reveal the mysteries of masonry. Lithograph published 1st March 1812, by Thomas Palser, Surry Side, Westminster Bridge.
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A meeting of Freemasons for the reception of apprentices: The candidate placing...

A meeting of Freemasons for the reception of apprentices:
The junior warden making a sign to the master that he is going to introduce a candidate who is in attendance outside the Lodge. Lithograph published 1st March 1812, by Thomas Palser, Surry Side, Westminster Bridge.
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A meeting of Freemasons for the reception of apprentices: The junior warden mak...

A meeting of Freemasons for the reception of apprentices:
Ceremony of placing the candidate on the tablet designed on the floor of the lodge. Lithograph published 1st March 1812, by Thomas Palser, Surry Side, Westminster Bridge.
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A meeting of Freemasons for the reception of apprentices: Ceremony of placing t...

A meeting of Freemasons for the reception of apprentices:
The candidate being laid on the device painted on the floor of the Lodge, his face covered with a bloody cloth, the Officers during the address from the Master present their drawn swords to different parts of the candidate's body. Lithograph published 1st March 1812, by Thomas Palser, Surry Side, Westminster Bridge.
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A meeting of Freemasons for the reception of apprentices: The candidate being l...

A meeting of Freemasons for the reception of apprentices:
The Master in raising the candidate gives the Grasp, Embrace and declares him Duty Elected a Master Mason.
Lithograph published 1st March 1812, by Thomas Palser, Surry Side, Westminster Bridge.
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A meeting of Freemasons for the reception of apprentices: The Master in raising...

Portrait of Ignaz von Born, friend and patron of W.A. Mozart,
master of the Freemasons' lodge "Zur gekroenten
Hoffnung". Mezzotint engraving by V. G. Kininger (1790) after a painting by Heinrich Friedrich Fueger.
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Portrait of Ignaz von Born, friend and patron of W.A. Mozart, master of the Fre...

Freemasonry: Masonic poem by poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
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Freemasonry: Masonic poem by poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Portrait of architect Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach (1656-1723), after a painting by Gabrielle Bertrand.
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Portrait of architect Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach (1656-1723), after a pa...

Joseph von Sonnenfels (1732-1817),professor of         
political science at the University of Vienna,         
freemason;convinced Empress Maria Theresia to abolish  
torture.                                               
Engraving after the portrait by Lampi,around 1800.
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Joseph von Sonnenfels (1732-1817),professor of political science at the...