battlepiece

British  

/ ˈbætəlˌpiːs /

noun

1. a painting, relief, mosaic, etc, depicting a battle, usually commemorating an actual event

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Example Sentences

Robert Hamilton thought it was a battlepiece, but involuntarily he lifted his hat.

From The Conqueror by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

Though the battlepiece perished in the fire of 1577, another masterpiece of this time marks a climax in Titian’s brilliantly coloured and highly finished style.

From The Venetian School of Painting by Phillipps, Evelyn March

Upon the next slab, a war chariot in full speed, passing over a dead lion, is represented; and on the sixth and last slab of the compartment is another battlepiece.

From How to See the British Museum in Four Visits by Jerrold, W. Blanchard