{"id":"41cjtzg","internal_id":"8c59045a-5930-408b-9e57-41cd83a7eb37","links":{"img_thumbnail":"https://digital.sciencehistory.org/downloads/deriv/y9lrc27/thumb_large_2X?disposition=inline","html_self":"https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/41cjtzg"},"title":"A Birmingham Toast, as given on the 14th of July","additional_title":[],"format":["image"],"genre":["Illustrations"],"medium":[],"extent":["57 cm W x 35.6 cm H"],"language":["English"],"provenance":"","subject":["Caricatures and cartoons","Political cartoons","Gillray, James, 1756-1815","Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804","French--Politics and government","Political satire, French"],"department":"Museum","series_arrangement":[],"rights":"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/","rights_holder":"","digitization_funder":"","file_creator":"Auerbach, Jahna","description":" A Birmingham Toast, as given on the 14th of July, by the --- Revolution Society. by James Gillray (1756-1815). \n\nThe illustration shows Charles James Fox seated at the center of a table and raising his glass, saying \"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!\" \n\nSeated on the 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.","description_html":"<p> <i>A Birmingham Toast, as given on the 14th of July, by the --- Revolution Society.</i> by James Gillray (1756-1815). </p>\n\n<p>The illustration shows Charles James Fox seated at the center of a table and raising his glass, saying \"My soul &amp; 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!\" </p>\n\n<p>Seated on the 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.</p>","published_at":"2026-09-11T19:46:34Z","updated_at":"2026-09-11T19:53:31Z","creator":[{"category":"artist","value":"Gillray, James, 1756-1815"}],"date_of_work":[{"start":"1791","start_qualifier":"","finish":"","finish_qualifier":"","note":"","formatted":"1791"}],"place":[{"category":"place_of_creation","value":"England--London"}],"inscription":[],"related_link":[{"url":"https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/birmingham-toast/","category":"institute_article","label":"Birmingham Toast"},{"url":"https://www.sciencehistory.org/education/scientific-biographies/joseph-priestley/","category":"institute_biography","label":"Joseph Priestley"}],"additional_credit":[],"physical_container":null}