Military festival in the vienna prater on the anniversary of the battle of the nations near leipzig (october 18, 1814): after lunch, franz i rides through the garrison camp in the area of today's freudenau, accompanied by all the sovereigns present in vienna at the time, while the officers toast him; in the background on the left are the rows of tables for the soldiers and a view of the city of vienna and leopoldsberg and kahlenberg; in the background on the right is the decorated pleasure house with a pontoon bridge erected in front of it. Lithograph by franz wolf after a model by johann nepomuk hoechle, from the series "key moments from the life of his majesty franz i. ". Date: 1 January 1835.
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