Emerging from a thick jet of steam which explodes from Thicknesse's head, and springing up towards the sky, is Minerva, the goddess of wisdom.

Her flowing hair turns into clouds at the top of the print. In her left hand she holds an oval-shaped, cracked, stone tablet, framed by entwined serpents. On it are inscribed the principal accusations against Thicknesse. In her right hand Minerva carries a wooden blunderbuss, a reference to a quarrel between Thicknesse and a colonel of the Suffolk militia, whom Thicknesse had insulted by sending him a present of a wooden gun. It bears the inscription 'The COWARD's delight or, the Wooden Gun'.