The Brazen Face'd O...r or Popish Incendiary

1746

British Museum 1862,0614.1281

Study for a satirical print on Orator Henley (BM Satires 2823). Henley is shown preaching in his chapel in Newport Market. Henley stands in a pulpit hung with a cloth bearing three fleurs-de-lis. A devil with a noose, wearing a Jesuit cap, hovers above him. A figure sketched in at the foot of the steps to the gallery is labelled "Jack Ketch" (the public hangman) in the final print. The border includes rosary beads hanging on either side.