Pax Romana Art

Sentry on the Wall

Hadrian's Wall, Britannia · 2nd century AD

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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: 16x12″ · 24x18″ · 32x24″ · 40x30″
  • Orientation: Horizontal
  • Medium: Fine art paper
  • Style: Graphic print
  • Era: Timeless
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Sentry on the WallFramed print · Black · 32x24″ 1.847 kr 2.642 krSave 795 kr
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Sentry on the Wall: an illustration of a Roman soldier on Hadrian's Wall at sunset, with giant shadowy warriors looming over the northern hills
Sentry on the Wall2nd century AD
Hadrian's Wall, Britannia · 2nd century AD

Watching the Northern Hills

Hadrian's Wall was begun around AD 122, after the emperor Hadrian visited Britain. It ran about eighty Roman miles, some seventy-three modern miles, from Wallsend on the Tyne to Bowness on the Solway Firth. The life of Hadrian in the Historia Augusta, written long afterward, says he built it to divide the Romans from the barbarians. Along its length stood a small fort every Roman mile with two turrets between each pair, and larger forts were soon added on the line itself.

The soldiers who manned it were mostly auxiliaries, recruited across the empire. Writing tablets from Vindolanda, a fort just south of the line, dating mostly from the years before the wall was built, show the life of this frontier: requests for leave, lists of supplies, a birthday invitation and a scornful note about the Britons, whom the writer calls Brittunculi, 'wretched little Britons'.

In the 140s Antoninus Pius pushed the frontier north to a new wall in Scotland, but within about twenty years the army was back on Hadrian's line.

The piece

The print stands us on the wall beside the sentry. Its big blocks fill the lower left corner, then the wall snakes away past a turret over red hills toward the low sun. Above the horizon the haze gathers into giant figures: shaggy-haired warriors with spears and long shields, faceless, rising over the land like weather. The soldier does not look up at them. He watches the hills.

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

Find the right size

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

Sentry on the Wall: an illustration of a Roman soldier on Hadrian's Wall at sunset, with giant shadowy warriors looming over the northern hills
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.