Index of illustrations

TRACING BOARDS HISTORY

PART 1

PART 2

PART 3

PART 4

The Tracing Boards
Index of illustrations

Figure 1.	The Master’s Tracing Board. Reproduced from page 28, Dominion Regalia Catalogue. 1999.
Figure 2.	Floor diagram reproduced from The Three Distinct Knocks. London: 1760.
Figure 3	Floor Cloth. Dated 1764 of the Lurgan Lodge then No. 394 (Grand Lodge of Ireland).
Figure 4.	Frontispiece. Constitutions. Anderson. London:1782.
Figure 5.	Satin apron, English, c. 1800 [p. 57,MacNulty]
Figure 6.	Reverse, miniature portrait of Francis Cornelia, wife of W. Bro. James Ames, Lodge Innocence and Morality: 1776.[p. 69, MacNulty]
Figure 7.	First Degree Tracing Board, engraved by F. Curtis, printed by John Cole: 1801. [p.89, MacNulty]
Figure 8.	Second Degree Tracing Board, engraved by F. Curtis, printed by John Cole: 1801. [p.78, MacNulty]
Figure 9.	Third Degree Tracing Board, engraved by F. Curtis, printed, John Cole: 1801. [p.280, AQC Vol. XXIX, 1916]
Figure 10.	First Degree Tracing Board. John Browne’s designs. c. 1800. [p.192, AQC Vol. LXXV, 1962] -labelling of pillars (as Cole, but cf. present ascriptions to Doric and Ionic); master’s tracing board.
Figure 11.	Second Degree Tracing Board. John Browne’s designs. c. 1800. [p.192, AQC Vol. LXXV, 1962] -super-arch to entrance; winding staircase springing from south.
Figure 12.	Third Degree Tracing Board. John Brownes’s designs. c. 1800. [p.192, AQC Vol. LXXV, 1962] -objects like strings of beads, possibly representing three lodges of five F.C.s each, topmost "lodge" completed by craftsman shown catching hold of shrub.
Figure 13.	First Degree Tracing Board. Jacobs’s designs. c. 1800. [p.192, AQC Vol. LXXV, 1962] - three sacrifice scenes of Abraham, Moses, Elijah (above setting sun, bottom right); female figures of virtues on Ladders.
Figure 14.	Second Degree Tracing Board. Jacobs’s designs. c. 1800. [p.192, AQC Vol. LXXV, 1962] - figures of three G.M.s on domed roof of Middle Chamber; landscape with waterfall, bridge, stream, &c.
Figure 15.	Third Degree Tracing Board. Jacobs’s designs. c. 1800. [p.192, AQC Vol. LXXV, 1962] - pentalpha with all-seeing eye; open coffin; speculative working tools and operative implements; date 3000 on inscription scroll.
Figure 16.	First Degree Tracing Board. Hand-painted on wood. Josiah Bowring: 1819. [p. 48, MacNulty]
Figure 17.	Second Degree Tracing Board. Hand-painted on wood. Josiah Bowring: 1819. [pp. 48-49, MacNulty]
Figure 18.	Third Degree Tracing Board. Hand-painted on wood. Josiah Bowring: 1819. [p. 49, MacNulty]
Figure 19.	First Degree. Emulation Ritual. A. Lewis (Masonic Publishers) Ltd. Middlesex: 1976.
Figure 20.	Second Degree. Emulation Ritual. A. Lewis (Masonic Publishers) Ltd. Middlesex: 1976.
Figure 21.	Third Degree. Emulation Ritual. A. Lewis (Masonic Publishers) Ltd. Middlesex: 1976.
Figure 22.	Cypher Inscriptions on Harris-type Third Degree Boards. [p.202, AQC Vol. LXXV, 1962]
Figure 23.	A Fine Board by J. Harris. 1850.