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The Ghosts of Varus

Teutoburg Forest, Germania · AD 15

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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

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: 12x16″ · 18x24″ · 24x32″ · 30x40″
  • Orientation: Vertical
  • Medium: Fine art paper
  • Style: Graphic print
  • Era: Principate
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The Ghosts of Varus: an illustration of a lone Roman legionary in a dark forest beneath rows of giant faceless soldiers rising from red mist
The Ghosts of VarusAD 15
Teutoburg Forest, Germania · AD 15

The Forest Remembers

In the autumn of AD 9, Publius Quinctilius Varus was leading three legions, the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth, toward their winter quarters when they were ambushed in the forests of Germania. The trap was laid by Arminius, a prince of the Cherusci who had served with Roman forces and whom Varus trusted. Over several days of rain and broken ground, the column was cut to pieces. Varus took his own life, and all three eagles were lost. Suetonius says Augustus would beat his head against a door, crying out to Varus to give him back his legions.

Six years later Germanicus, the nephew and adopted son of Tiberius, led an army to the battlefield. Tacitus describes what they found: Varus' first camp, a half-fallen rampart, whitening bones lying where men had fled or stood their ground, and skulls fixed to tree trunks. The soldiers buried the remains under a mound, and Germanicus laid the first turf himself. Since the late 1980s, finds at Kalkriese in Lower Saxony have convinced many historians that part of the fighting happened there.

The piece

The print sets one small figure at the bottom of a tall red sheet. Black trunks rise past him like the bars of a gate, and the mist between them thickens into soldiers: dozens of faceless giants in helmets, their spears lost in the canopy. The eye climbs from the lone legionary to the largest of them at the center, then back down to the pale path he has yet to walk.

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 Ghosts of Varus: an illustration of a lone Roman legionary in a dark forest beneath rows of giant faceless soldiers rising from red mist
Sofa · 84″ / 213 cm

Which size?

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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.

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