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. Date: [London] : Pubd. by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly, 1791 July 23d.. Medium: etching, hand-colored, print. Collection: Library of Congress. A Birmingham toast, as given on the 14th of July
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