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Model for the Freemasons' Hall, Great Queen Street, London, lantern light, designed by Sir John Soane
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Model for the Freemasons' Hall, Great Queen Street, London, lantern light, designed by Sir John Soane
Plaster with painted and stained glass
Height: 28cm
Width: 40.6cm
Depth: 40.6cm
Width: 40.6cm
Depth: 40.6cm
Museum number: DR1
On display: Dressing Room - ceiling
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
For tours https://www.soane.org/your-visit
Curatorial note
The Freemasons’ Hall was built by Soane in 1828-31 (it was demolished in 1863). Soane knew the Duke of Sussex, Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge and became a Mason in 1813, being appointed Grand Superintendent of Works in the same year. He had read works by many advanced French Enlightenment thinkers, some of whom were Masons, and came to appreciate the Masonic love of ceremony and fraternal affection.
The model features tiny rosettes and the signs of the zodiac in stained glass – exact replicas in miniature of the stained glass manufactured by William Collins for the Hall.
The model features tiny rosettes and the signs of the zodiac in stained glass – exact replicas in miniature of the stained glass manufactured by William Collins for the Hall.
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