Philip Thicknesse, seated at a table and directed to the left, holds up a paper to which he points with his pen: 'Junius [First written 'Junious', the 'o' struck out] Discover'd or the Way to Catch a Penny Price 2s Sealed up'. Other of his literary productions are on the table: A pile of four neat volumes, 'Thickhead's' [Memoirs], the backs inscribed respectively '1', '2', '1', '2' (two copies of the Memoirs, printed for the author in 1788). With these is a paper, 'Subscribers to Memoirs. Price to Subscribers £1-1-0 Non Subscribers 10/6d Humbug.' (The word 'Bamboozler' has been scored through). Two other papers are 'Queries to Ld Aud . . .'; 'A Letter to Ld Cov.', and 'Soon will be Published Le Trompeur or the Art of Bamboozling' [the signature 'PT' is struck out]. A small open book is: 'Life of Gainsbo[rough]'. Under the table is a sculptured head in profile to the right, the base inscribed 'Count Struen[see]'. From the back of his chair hangs a bag: 'Foul Letter Bag'. On the wall are two pictures: 'St Catherines Hermitage', a landscape, and 'Lady Betty', a bust portrait in profile to the right. There is also a torn plan inscribed 'Plan of Land Guard Fort - The Wooden Horse'. Thicknesse wears spectacles and a military cocked hat.  Beneath the title is etched :
<p><br><br>'They say I'm a Quarrelsome fellow 
<br>Gad rottet now how can that be? 
<br>For I never Quarrel with any, 
<br>But all the World Quarrel with me.' 21 November 1789.
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<br>Hand-coloured etching
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<p>Print made by: Isaac Cruikshank
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<dl><dd>Published by: James Aitken</dd></dl></div>
1789<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1789-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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