![The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/The_Siege_and_Relief_of_Gibraltar_%282%29.jpg/250px-The_Siege_and_Relief_of_Gibraltar_%282%29.jpg)
Painting credit: John Singleton Copley
The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782, an oil-on-canvas painting by Boston-born American artist John Singleton Copley. It depicts the defeat of the floating batteries at Gibraltar during the Great Siege of Gibraltar.