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Emblems for Royal Crown Lodge No. 22, 1810/15. Creator: Unknown

Emblems for Royal Crown Lodge No. 22, 1810/15. Sign, probably from an English lodge of the Odd Fellows, an international fraternal organisation founded to promote mutual aid, charity, and moral responsibility. The symbols include a heart in hand, denoting openness and sincerity, and an hourglass, suggesting life's transience. Latin inscription: Amicitia, Amor et Veritas, (Friendship, Love and Truth). Chartered groups developed in the United States beginning in 1819. While the English orders had long admitted black members, several American lodges broke away in 1842 to enforce white-only membership. The English continued issuing charters to African Americans, who built an influential network of inclusive Odd Fellows lodges

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An allegory relating to the fortunes of the Turks, ca. 1692

An allegory relating to the fortunes of the Turks, ca. 1692. A winged figure probably representing Time stands on a fallen Turk while sharpening a blade on a wheel inscribed with the continents that is being turned by a semi-dressed figure, at right the city of Vardino (northwest Romania near the Hungarian border) that was held by the Turks from 1660 to 1692

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Studies for "Classic and Romantic Art", c. 1921. Creator: John Singer Sargent

Studies for "Classic and Romantic Art", c. 1921

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