Pie-Us Ecstacy – or Godliness (the Itinerant Preachers) Great Gain, November 19, 1825, Etching, Plate: 11 1/4 x 8 3/4 in. (28.5 x 22.3 cm), Prints, Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London), Rowlandson created this grotesque image of greed to condemn false piety. It portrays William Huntington, a wealthy, eccentric Nonconformist preacher who began life as a coal-heaver. He is shown in a state of ecstasy brought on not by a heavenly vision but by thoughts of venison and mulligatawny soup
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Pie-Us Ecstacy, Godliness, Itinerant Preachers, Great Gain, November 19, 1825, Etching, Plate, 11 1/4 x 8 3/4, 28.5 22.3 cm, Prints, Thomas Rowlandson, British, London, 1757–1827, Rowlandson created, grotesque image, greed, condemn false, piety, portrays William, Huntington, wealthy, eccentric Nonconformist, preacher, life, coal-heaver, shown, state, ecstasy, heavenly vision, thoughts, venison, mulligatawny soup
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