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Description: Summary: Print shows Charles James Fox seated at center of a table and raising his glass, "My Soul & Body, both, upon the Toast," to a toast offered by Joseph Priestley, who stands at left holding up an overflowing chalice and an empty communion plate, "The---head, here!" Seated at left are Sir Cecil Wray and Richard B. Sheridan; seated to the right are Horne Tooke and Theophilus Lindsey, and behind them stand caricatured dissenters. Hanging on the wall above Fox is a picture of St. Paul's Cathedral, titled "A Pigs Stye - a view from Hackney," with three pigs eating at a trough.
Title: A Birmingham toast, as given on the 14th of July by the--revolution society
Credit: This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ppmsca.05529. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing.
Author: James Gillray
Permission: Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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