Drawn with brown ink and black chalk on buff-colored paper, the whole bodies or parts of bodies of at least eleven muscular, nude men fight across this horizontally oriented sheet. In a vignette to the left, one man lifts a club high overhead as two men cower at his feet. Next to that, a man slices the head from a prone victim. Next, a man holds hands overhead as he pins another prone man on the ground with a foot to the neck. Others struggle to get up, lie injured, or swing weapons. One disembodied head is at the top center of the composition, and a pile of armor with a shield, a bow, quiver and arrows, and a sword are near the lower right corner. The four corners of the paper appear to have been cut and then the bits of paper replaced next to the main sheets.
Artwork Details
- Medium
- pen and brown ink over black chalk on four irregularly cut pieces of two types of buff laid paper; laid down and with corner pieces added
- Dimensions
- 5034 × 2859 px
- Public Domain
- Yes
- Museum Record
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