Drunken and diseased people attending the wedding of William Huntington and the rich widow Sanderson; behind Huntington is a devil handing breeches to a hack journalist. Coloured etching by S. De Wilde, 1808.

William Huntington was a preacher and religious entrepreneur at his Providence Chapel, Titchfield Street, off Great Portland Street, London, and subsequently at Grays Inn Road, near Calthorpe Street

Figures on the left include deaf people (with ear-trumpet) and syphilitic people (no nose). On the right and in the background, small grinning devils fill coalsacks with gold, alluding to Huntington's previous employment as a coal-heaver and his enrichment from religion which he described as the "Bank of faith". The gift of breeches refers to his receipt of some breeches after having prayed for some

[London] ([37 Leadenhall Street]) : [S. Tipper], [1 October 1808]

1 print : etching, with watercolour ; image 17.3 x 34.1 cm

Love feast. Thaumaso Scrutiny esq. fecit.

British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, London 1947, vol. 8, no. 11083

Wellcome Collection 38403i