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
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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., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.