Created by William Dent. Published by James Aitken. Engraving (coloured impression). Philip Thicknesse stands full face, a rope round his neck, nude except for short breeches. He frowns, his eyes looking to the right as in Gillray’s portrait. His body is covered with defamatory inscriptions. His chest is cut open vertically to reveal ribs and organs, similarly inscribed. In his right hand is a pen, in his left are three papers inscribed: 'Paragraph, Pamphlets, Letters', all characterised as 'Extortion'. His forehead is inscribed 'Libel, Ignorance, Illnature'; his nose, 'Plagiarism', his checks, 'Letchery and Austerity' his mouth 'Falsehood' and 'Vulgarality' [sic]; his protruding tongue, 'Scandal'. The rope around his neck is 'Merit'. His shoulders are inscribed 'Inhumanity' and 'Apprehension'; his ribs, 'Seven Deadly Sin' and 'Bastardy'. His organs: 'Cowardice, Gallstones, Treachery, Spleen, Disease, Defamation, Cruelty, Reservoir for Friends'. His sides: 'Quackery and Buffoonery'; his right arm, 'Belzebub, Insinuation, Assassination'. His left arm, 'Flattery, Damnation, Affidavit'. One breeches pocket bulging with guineas is 'Plunder', the other hanging inside out is 'Poverty'; between them is the word 'Genius'. On the right thigh is etched a cocked pistol inscribed 'Memoirs', with the head of Thicknesse saying "Death of Characters is Life to me; this is Faith". On the left thigh the Devil kicks Thicknesse away from the flames of Hell, saying "I wont be troubled with you-your [sic] are too bad for me; this is Hope". His bare knees, legs and right foot are inscribed, 'Hypocrisy, Imposition, Prostitution, Deceit, Desertion'. He tramples on two torn papers: 'Moral Duties and Religious Duties'. Beneath the title is etched: '(without permission) to Phil. Thicknesse, Esq. Formerly a Lieutenant Governor and lately Doer of the St James’s Chronicl Most heartily Addressed,e, but now Nobody at his in Kent'. “Oh! Gravel Heart! Unfit to Live! Unfit to Die!” Shakespeare. Description from the Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Vol. VI. 7725