Spectra from light shone through prisms Size:XL: 120 x 100cm Thompson wears a blue sash

Thompson wears a blue sash and a just-visible decoration

Arch Bishop Boniface denouncing the anathema in Westminster Hall

scene of Bonaparte's coach on show at Bullock's Museum

opposite Lambeth Palace

Spectra from light shone through prisms Size:XL: 120 x 100cm Thompson wears a blue sashOptical diagrams showing light shone through prisms and the resulting spectral patterns. Four figures numbered 5a 5b and 6a 6b. Plate 5 from the monograph 'Merkwurdige phanomene an und durch verschiedene prismen: zur richtigen wurdigung der Newton'schen und der von Gothe'schen farbenlehre', [Remarkable phenomena at and through different prisms to correct Newton's and Goethe's theories of colours] by Johann Friedrich Christian Werneburg (Nuremberg,