Battle of Clontarf | Hugh Frazer | 1826 15th Century thanks to its museum-quality giclée

thanks to its museum-quality giclée print technique

emblematic of despair and ominous prophecy

The painting depicts a single sheep in the foreground

surrounded by dense

Battle of Clontarf | Hugh Frazer | 1826 15th Century thanks to its museum-quality gicléeThe Battle of Clontarf took place on 23 April 1014 at Clontarf, near Dublin, on the east coast of Ireland. It pitted an army led by Brian Boru, High King of Ireland, against a Norse Irish alliance comprising the forces of Sigtrygg Silkbeard, King of Dublin; Mel Mrda mac Murchada, King of Leinster; and a Viking army from abroad led by Sigurd of Orkney and Brodir of Mann. It lasted from sunrise to sunset, and ended in a rout of the Viking and Leinster