A Red Study Finish:Float frame Steve Marriott

Steve Marriott

St James Park

View the Tower of London from the River Thames with boats on the river

With ornamental border including fishing nets

the working class generally

A Red Study Finish:Float frame Steve Marriott'A Red Study', 1875. This cartoon shows Dr Henry Edward Manning gazing into the fire. Manning had in fact been one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement, but converted to Roman Catholicism in 1851. He had been made Archbishop of Westminster at the beginning of 1874, but in March 1875, Pope Pius IX created six new cardinals, one of which was Manning. He is depicted holding a cardinal's hat on his knee as he visualises the Papal crown in the flames