A 1790 caricature of Philip Thicknesse, trampling on moral and religious duties, his person covered with defamatory inscriptionsThomas Gainsborough, Ann Ford, later Mrs Philip Thicknesse, 1760
CaptainPhilip Thicknesse (1719 โ 23 November 1792) was a British Army officer and writer who was a friend of the artist Thomas Gainsborough.[1] He wrote several travel guides.