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Freemasonry’s Earliest “Tracing Board”?
A look at the “Form of the Lodge” drawing that features in the Carmick MS of 1727, where it like came from and it’s similarities to a Tracing Board as…
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Auld Alloway Kirk and Tam O' Shanter
Bro. Francis Grose, the author and Freemason that presented the occasion for Bro. Robert Burns to write his famous tale of Tam O' Shanter and created…
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The Mystery of Masonry Brought to Light by ye Gormagons
A satirical piece of Masonic artwork created by artist and later Freemason, Bro. William Hogarth. First published in 1724 and the first of many artworks…
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Riding The Goat
Cassius Marcellus Coolidge’s depiction of a canine Masonic Initiation to sell cigars with its Masonic symbolism, satire and allegory of the first…
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The Lodge Brothers
“Die Logenbrüder” is possibly the first example of an actual commission by German artist and Freemason Lovis Corinth. Depicting 12 members of his Lodge…
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December 2020

Spot the difference with Robert Burns
Re-Discovery of a second painting (and a third) showing Robert Burns as member of Lodge Canongate Kilwinning No.2 Edinburgh. But it it’s unlikely to be…
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Early Stonemasons of Scotland
The United Incorporated Trades of Wright and Masons of Mary’s Chapel, depicted in front of Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh c.1720 by artist Roderick…
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There are plans are upon the Tracing Board
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