Battle of Talavera Finish:Rolled Blackfriars Bridge can be seen

Blackfriars Bridge can be seen to the right

Inscribed in pencil lower left: 'From Sir E

The Honble

Plate 15 from the monograph 'Die Beugungserscheinungen aus den Fundamentalgesetzen der Undulationstheorie analytisch entwickelt und in Bildern dargestellt' [Diffraction in the fundamental laws of wave theory developed analytically and presented in pictures]

Battle of Talavera Finish:Rolled Blackfriars Bridge can be seenBattle of Talavera, Spain, 28th July 1809 (1819). The British and Spanish army commanded by Wellington won an indecisive victory over the French commanded by Napoleon's brother Joseph Bonaparte, who Napoleon had installed on the Spanish throne. From The Victories of the Duke of Wellington, 1819.