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Joseph Priestley’s house after the riots

1792 · Fair Hill, Sparkbrook

Print of the ruins of Joseph Priestley’s house at Fair Hill after the 1791 riots. — Drawn by P. H. Witton junior; engraved by William Ellis, 1792. Grosvenor Prints via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · Select the picture to zoom and pan.

Fair Hill, Priestley’s house and laboratory, after rioters burnt it on 14 July 1791. From Views of the Ruins of the Principal Houses destroyed during the Riots at Birmingham (1792).

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