Satire on the excesses of certain freemasons: a procession of masons emerge from a public house headed by elaborately dressed men described as the emperor of china, confucius and two mandarins; an old woman sits on a ladder balanced on the back of a donkey and a mason, identified as such by his apron and gloves, stretches between the rungs of the ladder to kiss her bare backside; don quixote, in full armour and wearing a masonic apron and gloves, holds up his shield behind the donkey; in the foreground, to left, a man playing the bladder and string, in the centre, a dancing monkey with apron and gloves, and, to right, a butcher laughing at the scene while sancho panza gasps in surprise. 1724
etching. Date: 1724. Dimensions: Height: 250 mm; Width: 353 mm. Medium: paper. Depicted People: Confucius 孔夫子. Collection: British Museum. The Mystery of Masonry brought to Light by ye Gormagons (BM 1868,0808.3727)
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