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Agrippina with the Ashes of Germanicus

Brundisium, Italy · AD 20

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  • 12-color fine art printing with fade-resistant pigment inks
  • Smooth matte fine art paper, 200 gsm
  • Pine wood frame, FSC-certified paper and wood
  • Shatterproof plexiglass
  • Arrives framed and ready to hang, hanging kit included

Hanging print

  • 12-color fine art printing with fade-resistant pigment inks
  • Smooth matte fine art paper, 200 gsm
  • Pine wood frame, FSC-certified paper and wood
  • Shatterproof plexiglass
  • Arrives framed and ready to hang, hanging kit included
  • Sizes: 16x12″ · 24x18″ · 32x24″ · 40x30″
  • Orientation: Horizontal
  • Medium: Fine art paper
  • Style: Graphic print
  • Era: Principate
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Agrippina with the Ashes of Germanicus: an illustration of Agrippina carrying an urn from a ship with two children past mourners, beneath a giant armored Germanicus
Agrippina with the Ashes of GermanicusAD 20
Brundisium, Italy · AD 20

The Widow Comes Home

Germanicus Julius Caesar was a grandson of Mark Antony and a great-nephew of Augustus, who had made Tiberius adopt him as heir. He won fame and the devotion of his soldiers in Germania, and was then sent east with wide powers. In October AD 19 he fell ill and died at Antioch, in Syria. He believed he had been poisoned by the governor of Syria, Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso, with whom he had quarreled; whether he was remains unknown.

His widow, Agrippina the Elder, a granddaughter of Augustus, carried his ashes home by sea in winter. Tacitus describes her landing at Brundisium: the harbor walls, the rooftops and every place with a view packed with mourners, and Agrippina stepping from the ship with two of her children, holding the funeral urn, her eyes cast down, as the crowd groaned as one. Tacitus adds that Tiberius and his mother Livia stayed out of public view.

Agrippina never forgave Tiberius, and her open hostility ended in her exile and death. The scene became a favorite of later painters, among them Benjamin West, whose version of 1768 is at Yale.

The piece

The print reads from left to right, as the procession does. The dark hull and rigging of the ship fill the left edge; Agrippina comes down the gangplank veiled in black, the urn catching the light; the mourners stand in a long bowed line that runs off the right edge. Above the harbor, Germanicus rises out of the red haze in a cuirass with an eagle on the chest, too large and too far away to reach.

Materia · The materials

Fine art paper, framed or hung.

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Pine frame

Black, dark wood or natural wood, FSC-certified. Framed prints arrive framed and ready to hang, hanging kit included.

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Fine art paper

Framed prints: 200 gsm smooth matte paper, printed in 12 colors with fade-resistant pigment inks.

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Shatterproof plexiglass

Protects the print in transit and on the wall.

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Magnetic wooden hanger

Posters: 250 gsm museum-quality matte paper between pine hangers in black or dark wood. The magnets hold the print, so you can swap it any time.

Size guide

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This piece, to scale, above an 84-inch sofa. Pick a size, or a format and frame above, and the wall follows.

Agrippina with the Ashes of Germanicus: an illustration of Agrippina carrying an urn from a ship with two children past mourners, beneath a giant armored Germanicus
Sofa · 84″ / 213 cm

Which size?

Sizes are the artwork's. Frames and hangers add a little around the edge.

Above a sofa or bed, art looks best at about two-thirds of the furniture's width, hung 8 to 10 inches above it.