Framed print with beautiful vibrant colors depicting a battle between the Greeks and the Bulgarians. The print shows that the Greek fores are driving against the Bulgarians and defeating them. The landscape of the print shows that thre are mountains in the background that are taken over by the Greeks. On the mountains/hills there are Greek flags and small figures of soliders. In the sky above them it looks like there are either fireworks going off or explosions. The sky is blue and where the fireworks/explosions are they are yellow, orange, and red surrounded by a cloud of white. The rest of the sky is an robin egg blue. The hills behind the main focus of the picture are filled with colors of greens, browns, yellows, oranges, blues, purple, and pink. This seems to add definition to the landscape. In what seems to be a valley there is a town where the Greek flag is flying. There are many buildings that are painted white and pink with red roofs. Around the town and across the mountain range behind the fighting there are many trees. The tres are a deep brown, gren, and black. The main part of the print shows the Greeks charging and beating the Bulgarians. The enitre bottom portion of the picture and the middle and right side show the defeated Bulgarian military. There are men being bayonetted by the Greeks, men that are fleeing, and men that are lying on the ground and on top of each other either dead or injured. On the far right side there is an explosion which is sending debris into the air. The explosion is orange, yellow, and white. There are some Bulgarians who seem to be surrendering while others seem to be fighting. The Bulgarian men around it are sheilding themselves from the impact. To show the defeat of the Bulgarians, the Bulgarian flag is on the ground being held by an incapacitated solider. The Bulgarians are wearing green uniforms with red and gold embelishments. The Greek army is on the left side of the picture and wraps around above the Bulgarian army to the other side of the picture. They are all either in firing lines shooting at the Bulgarians or chasing them. There are several Greek soliders on the far left who have their swords and bayonetts out and are attacking and killing the Bulgarian soliders. In between the two opposing armies there are rocks/bolders that are acting as a boundary between the two sides. There are severl Greeks standing on them taking shots down at the Bulgarians. The rocks are shades of gray, brown, black, purple, orange, yellow, pink, blue, and green. The ground is made up of the shades white, gray, brown, black, purple, orange, yellow, pink, blue, and green. The Greek military uniforms are brown with gold and red embelishments. At the bottom the title is in Greek and is "The First Victory of the Greeks and the Panic of the Bulgarians in Berovan 19 June 1913." The print was published in Athens.

Prints were produced in Greece and given to the donor by a Greek friend. The prinst were most likely made in the early 20th century in Greece to commemorate the Greek defeat of the Bulgarians in the Second Balkans War.

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