battle-piece

‘What is that?’ said Faith, catching a glimpse of something that the carriage-lamp showed on the face of one wall as they passed, a marble bas-relief of some battle-piece, built into the stonework.

The Hand of Ethelberta 2006

He painted a prodigious battle-piece of Assaye, with General

The Newcomes 2006

In another compartment, close to this, a prisoner is immolated and farther on, is a small battle-piece, in which the assault and capture of a tower are represented; a man, with an axe in his hand, is endeavouring to make a breach in the walls, from which some of the garrison are precipitated, while others are brought in prisoners.

Travels in Nubia 2004

A few pages farther back came Fanny and Mr. Frank, caricatured; then grandma, carefully done; Tom reciting his battle-piece; Mr. Shaw and Polly in the park; Maud being borne away by Katy; and all the school-girls turned into ridicule with an unsparing hand.

An Old-Fashioned Girl 1950

Hohenlinden from the monastery of St. Jacob, and wrote that splendid, ringing battle-piece, which has been so often recited and parodied.

English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee

But he had his grand battle-piece on hand then, -- and after that he went the way of all geniuses, and died down into colorer for a photographer.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 Various

Frederick Tennyson said of it, that it was the best battle-piece he ever saw; -- "In its red ruggedness it looks as if it had been sketched in by the gleam of Dunbar's cannon flashes."

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics Various

He frequently attributed very bad paintings to very good masters; and it by no means followed because he called a battle-piece a "Salvator Rosa," that it was painted by Salvator.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 Various

But then, if the first movement of the Symphony be a battle-piece, how came its author to compose another, and one so entirely different, in 1812?

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 Various

Goethe has neither the eye of Wouverman nor Borgognone, and sketches but an indifferent battle-piece.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 Various