[Portrait of Ben Bradly] [graphic]

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Title: [Portrait of Ben Bradly] [graphic]
Creator: Faber, John, 1695?-1756, printmaker
Contributor: Pond, Arthur, 1701-1758, artist.
Published / Created: published the 22 of April 1737.
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Portrait, seated to front and smoking pipe, almost whole-length, his arms resting on chair-backs, bottle, glass and paper on table at right. According to the British Museum catalogue, Benjamin Bradly [sic] was a tobacconist, and an opponent of Robert Walpole's excise bill
Description: Title supplied by cataloguer.
Text below image: Behold the Man, who when a gloomy Band, Of vile Excisemen threaten'd all the Land, Help'd to deliver from their Harpy Gripe, The chearfull Bottle and the Social Pipe, O rare Ben Bradly! may for This the Bowl, Still unexcis'd, rejoice thy honest Soul! May still the Best in Christendom for This, Heave to thy Stopper and compleat thy Bliss.
A small crest showing Britannia smoking, centered between text below image.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Provenance: Old Print Shop; October 1959.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 37.7 x 27.8 cm
Language: English

Access: Public
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