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The cutter cut up, or, the monster at full length   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: William Dent

Published by: James Aitken
Title
The cutter cut up, or, the monster at full length
Description
English: 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, see BMSat 7722. His person 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 three papers inscribed: 'Paragraph', 'Pamphlets', 'Letters', all characterized as 'Extortion'. His forehead is inscribed 'Libel', 'Ignorance', 'Illnature'; his nose 'Plagiarism'; his cheeks, 'Letchery' and 'Austerity'; his mouth 'Falsehood' and 'Vulgarality' [sic]; his protruding tongue, 'Scandal'. The rope round 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: 'Most heartily Addressed, (without permission) to Phil. Thicknesse, Esq. Formerly a Lieutenant Governor and lately Doer of the St. James's Chronicle, but now Nobody at his Hut in Kent


"Oh! gravel Heart! unfit to Live! unfit to Die!"
Shakespere' 15 December 1790


Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: Philip Thicknesse
Date 1790
date QS:P571,+1790-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 475 millimetres
Width: 302 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.5982
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)

In 1789 Thicknesse converted a barn at Sandgate into a dwelling-house from which to contemplate the shores of France. For the placard advertising for Thicknesse as a Cutting Monster see under BMSat 7721, where the allusions to gall-stones, his Memoirs, &c, are explained.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5982
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