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').
<br>Etching
1661<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1661-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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