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The Battle of the Trebia

The Trebia, northern Italy · 218 BC

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Framed 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

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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
  • Sizes: 18x12″ · 24x16″ · 36x24″
  • Orientation: Horizontal
  • Medium: Fine art paper
  • Style: Military plate
  • Era: Punic Wars
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The Battle of the Trebia: an illustration of the Battle of the Trebia as a battle plan: Hannibal's lines and elephants, the Roman legions and Mago's ambush
The Battle of the Trebia218 BC
The Trebia, northern Italy · 218 BC

Mago Waits in the Stream Bed

The Battle of the Trebia was fought in December 218 BC, a few months after Hannibal crossed the Alps. It took place beside the Trebia, a tributary of the Po, near the Roman colony of Placentia, modern Piacenza. Polybius tells the story in Book III of his Histories.

Hannibal chose his ground with care. The night before, he hid his younger brother Mago with 1,000 infantry and 1,000 cavalry in a watercourse overgrown with brush. At dawn his Numidian horsemen rode up to the Roman camp and drew Sempronius out. The Romans, unfed, waded the swollen river chest-deep in sleet and formed up cold and wet. Polybius gives Sempronius some 16,000 Roman and 20,000 allied infantry, with 4,000 cavalry, against about 20,000 Carthaginian infantry and over 10,000 horse. Hannibal's cavalry and elephants broke the Roman wings, and Mago struck from behind. Some 10,000 Romans in the center forced their way through and reached Placentia; most of the rest were cut down or lost at the river.

The piece

The plate sets the armies out on warm, aged paper in red and blue. Read it from the river upward: the red legions with cavalry on each side, Mago's blue square tucked into the stream bed at left, and the dashed blue arrows closing in. One solid red arrow cuts through Hannibal's line and bends away toward Placentia, the one escape of the day.

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.

The Battle of the Trebia: an illustration of the Battle of the Trebia as a battle plan: Hannibal's lines and elephants, the Roman legions and Mago's ambush
Sofa · 84″ / 213 cm

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