Anti-Masonic apron – Vintage Wall Art
![Anti-Masonic apron, [Albany, New York] : Published by W[illiam] Cammeyer, Jr., 489 Sth. Market Street, Albany, c1831. — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/40/40669c56ee24-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare antique engraving captures Anti-Masonic apron in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Anti-Masonic apron
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The title points to the apron, the white lambskin garment Freemasons wore in lodge ceremonies, which this engraving uses as its target. It was published in Albany around 1831, when the city was a center of the Anti-Masonic movement. That movement grew out of outrage over the 1826 disappearance of William Morgan, a former Mason who had threatened to publish the order's secrets and who was believed to have been abducted and killed. Its fierce politics helped launch one of the first third-party campaigns in American history, and prints like this one carried its message to voters who could not read the longer pamphlets.
| Created / published | [Albany, New York] : Published by W[illiam] Cammeyer, Jr., 489 Sth. Market Street, Albany, c1831. |
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| Medium | 1 print on fine wove paper : engraving ; plate 32.5 x 34 cm. |
| Genre | Political cartoons 1830-1840.Engravings 1830-1840. |
| Notes | Title from item. The Library's impression was deposited for copyright on November 1, 1831. DLC Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1831-3. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,776 × 4,711 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221538 |
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