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[edit]The quarrelsome fellow.
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Print made by: Isaac Cruikshank
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The quarrelsome fellow. |
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English: 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 :
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| Depicted people | Associated with: George Thicknesse Touchet Audley, 19th Baron | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1789 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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J,2.55 |
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) Thicknesse was (by purchase) Lieutenant-Governor of Landguard Fort, Suffolk, 1753-66. While there he quarrelled with Francis Vernon, colonel of the Suffolk militia, and sent him an insulting present of a wooden gun. He built a house in Bath which he called St. Catherine's Hermitage. In 1789 he published a pamphlet, 'Junius Discovered' (in the person of Horne Tooke). 'Lady Betty' is his second wife, Lady Elizabeth Touchet, d. 1762. Her eldest son succeeded to the barony of Audley; with him Thicknesse was on the worst of terms, publishing a pamphlet, 'Queries to Lord Audley', in 1782. In 1785 he published 'A Letter to the Earl of Coventry'. His 'Sketch of the Life and Paintings of Thomas Gainsborough' (with whom he had quarrelled in 1774) was published in 1788. A list of subscribers was prefixed to the 'Memoirs' (3 vols., 1788-91), in which various quarrels are related. Casts of the head and right hand of Count Struensee, modelled in wax, were exhibited gratis to purchasers of the 'Queries to Lord Audley'. (Adair, 'Curious facts and anecdotes . . .', pp. 48, 73-4.) They are described in Thicknesse's 'Bath Guide', 1778, pp. 10, 53-4, as to be seen at Shrimpton's circulating library, for a shilling. They were taken after the execution of Struensee (see BMSats 4950, 4956) by order of the King of Denmark. This print is the first of a series of attacks on Thicknesse, see BMSat 7721, &c. The campaign against him was probably organized to prevent the publication of expected volumes of his memoirs. Philip Francis showed (1 Jan. 1788) great anxiety to be kept out of the quasi-blackmailing book, though Thicknesse intended the references to him to be laudatory. Parkes, 'Memoirs of Francis', ii. 279. 2 |
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| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_J-2-55 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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