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instance of: painting (29) | unfinished creative work (1) | painting series (1) | artwork original version (1)

owned by: Benjamin West (1) | Birmingham Museum of Art (1) | Richard Grosvenor, 1st Earl Grosvenor (1) | H. M. Calmann (1) | Ray L. Murphy (1) | Marshall O. Roberts (1)

movement: Hudson River School (1)

artist: John Trumbull (7) | Benjamin West (5) | Albert Bierstadt (3) | John Singleton Copley (3) | Emanuel Leutze (2) | Thomas Prichard Rossiter (2) | Frederic Edwin Church (1) | Asher Brown Durand (1) | Louis Rémy Mignot (1) | Samuel Colman (1) | Thomas Hill (1) | John Mix Stanley (1) | Howard Chandler Christy (1) | Jennie Augusta Brownscombe (1)

part of the series: Watson and the Shark (3)

depicts: George Washington (8) | man (6) | Havana (3) | tree (3) | shark attack (3) | Brook Watson (3) | woman (2) | Christopher Columbus (2) | cloud (2) | James Monroe (2) | Thomas Mifflin (2) | Nathanael Greene (2) | Richard Dobbs Spaight (2) | soldier (2) | George Washington's resignation as commander-in-chief (2) | Atlantic Ocean (1) | dog (1) | sky (1)

material used: oil paint (28) | canvas (21) | canvas (5) | paper (1) | board (1)

collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art (4) | Yale University Art Gallery (4) | private collection (2) | Birmingham Museum of Art (2) | United States Capitol rotunda (2) | United States House of Representatives (1) | Museum of Fine Arts (1) | United States Capitol (1) | National Gallery of Art (1) | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (1) | Plainfield (1) | Art Gallery of Ontario (1) | National Gallery of Canada (1) | Smithsonian American Art Museum (1) | Detroit Institute of Arts (1) | Walker Art Gallery (1) | Winterthur Museum and Country Estate (1) | California State Railroad Museum (1)

location: Metropolitan Museum of Art (4) | Yale University Art Gallery (4) | Birmingham Museum of Art (2) | United States Capitol rotunda (2) | United States House of Representatives (1) | Museum of Fine Arts (1) | United States Capitol (1) | Mount Stewart (1) | National Gallery of Art (1) | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (1) | Plainfield (1) | National Gallery of Canada (1) | Louvre Palace (1) | Smithsonian American Art Museum (1) | Detroit Institute of Arts (1) | Walker Art Gallery (1) | Winterthur Museum and Country Estate (1) | California State Railroad Museum (1)

part of: Watson and the Shark (1)

exhibition history: Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon (1) | L'invention du passé. Histoires de cœur et d'épée en Europe, 1802-1850 (1)

main subject: Washington's crossing of the Delaware River (1)

Surrender of Lord Cornwallis

painting
by John Trumbull (1819)
Siege of Yorktown George Washington Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau Benjamin Lincoln

The Battle of the Boyne

painting
by Benjamin West (1778)
Battle of the Boyne William III

The Last Spike

painting
by Thomas Hill (1881)
Promontory Central Pacific Railroad Union Pacific Railroad railway First Transcontinental Railroad Golden spike Union Pacific No. 119 Central Pacific Railroad 60 “Jupiter” crowd train locomotive man woman flag of the United States worker shovel Leland Stanford Collis Potter Huntington Charles Crocker Theodore Judah Edwin B. Crocker Mark Hopkins Aaron A. Sargent Sidney Dillon Oakes Ames Anson P.K. Safford Benjamin B. Redding Silas Sanderson Samuel S. Montague David Hewes John S. Casement Milton Latham William Tecumseh Sherman Harvey Wilson Harkness Jacob Davis Babcock Stillman

Washington Crossing the Delaware

painting
by Emanuel Leutze (1851)
George Washington Delaware River James Monroe Nathanael Greene boat soldier American Revolutionary War Washington's crossing of the Delaware River man

Signing of the Constitution

painting
by Thomas Prichard Rossiter (1860s)

The Resignation of General Washington, December 23, 1783

painting
by John Trumbull (1824)
George Washington's resignation as commander-in-chief George Washington

The Sortie Made by the Garrison of Gibraltar, 1789

painting
by John Trumbull (1789)
soldier

American Commissioners of the Preliminary Peace Negotiations with Great Britain

painting / unfinished creative work
by Benjamin West (1783)
Treaty of Paris John Jay John Adams Benjamin Franklin Henry Laurens William Temple Franklin

The Death of General Wolfe

painting / painting series
by Benjamin West (1770)
James Wolfe Battle of the Plains of Abraham

The Capture of the Hessians at Trenton, December 26, 1776

painting
by John Trumbull (1786)
Battle of Trenton George Washington Johann Rall James Monroe Nathanael Greene William Stephens Smith John Sullivan Robert H. Harrison Tench Tilghman Josiah Parker William Shepard Henry Knox Philemon Dickinson John Glover George Weedon William Washington

Signing of the Constitution

painting
by Howard Chandler Christy (1940)
Constitutional Convention Independence Hall George Washington Richard Dobbs Spaight James Wilson Richard Bassett

Finish — First International Race for America's Cup, August 8, 1870

painting
by Samuel Colman (1870)
sailboat 1870 America's Cup Atlantic Ocean steamboat steam barque wind wave Newport ship

The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776

painting
by John Trumbull (1786)
Signing of the United States Declaration of Independence

The Death of Nelson

painting
by Benjamin West (1806)

The Peace Ball at Fredericksburg, Virginia held at the Rising Sun Tavern after the surrender at Yorktown. November 1781

painting
by Jennie Augusta Brownscombe (1896)

Watson and the Shark

painting
by John Singleton Copley (1778)
shark attack Havana Brook Watson man

The Trial of Red Jacket

painting
by John Mix Stanley (1869)
Indigenous peoples of America tree

Washington and Lafayette at Mount Vernon, 1784 (The Home of Washington after the War)

painting
by Thomas Prichard Rossiter (1859)
sky cloud tree George Washington Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette Mount Vernon woman child dog chair house

Study for "The Landing of Columbus"

painting
by Albert Bierstadt (1892)

Christopher Columbus Before the Council of Salamanca

painting
by Emanuel Leutze (1841)
Christopher Columbus

Watson and the Shark

painting / artwork original version
by John Singleton Copley (1778)
shark attack Havana Brook Watson man

The Capture of Major André

painting
by Asher Brown Durand (1845)
John André New York man horse White people letter coat hat trousers shirt bow tie waistcoat coonskin cap rock Bag cloud tree

Watson and the Shark

painting
by John Singleton Copley (1782)
shark attack Havana Brook Watson man

The Landing of Columbus

painting
by Albert Bierstadt (1893s)
Christopher Columbus

Hooker and Company Journeying through the Wilderness from Plymouth to Hartford, in 1636

painting
by Frederic Edwin Church (1846)

Discovery of the Hudson River

painting
by Albert Bierstadt (1874)
Hudson River

The Death of General Mercer at the Battle of Princeton, January 3, 1777

painting
by John Trumbull (1787)
Battle of Princeton George Washington Hugh Mercer William Leslie Benjamin Rush Thomas Mifflin

General George Washington Resigning His Commission

painting
by John Trumbull (1824)
George Washington George Washington's resignation as commander-in-chief David Humphreys Benjamin Walker Thomas Mifflin William Smallwood Eleazer McComb Charles Thomson Martha Washington Elbridge Gerry Hugh Williamson Samuel Osgood George Partridge Richard Dobbs Spaight Benjamin Hawkins

Erasistratus the Physician Discovers the Love of Antiochus for Stratonice

painting
by Benjamin West (1772)
Seleucus I Nicator Erasistratus Antiochus I Soter Stratonice of Syria bed crown