Thomas Venner (BM 1937,0529.6 1)

Portrait of Thomas Venner, half length in an oval, wearing helmet, armour, and holding a halberd and a book inscribed 'Biblia in Manu et Diabolum in Corde' ('The Bible in his hand, and the Devil in his heart'); at top of halberd a tablet entitled 'Conventicula Curiosa Anabaptistarum et Quackerorum' ('A strange gathering of Anabaptists and Quakers'), depicting a naked woman and Anabaptists and Quakers before a pulpit; at upper left, within an oval, the inscription 'Pietas et Paupertas Simulata' ('Piety and poverty pretended').
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