Surrender of Lord Cornwallis (Q3212180)

Label from: English (en)

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genre: history painting (Q742333)
artist: John Trumbull (Q369263)
collection: United States Capitol rotunda (Q918708)
location: United States Capitol rotunda (Q918708)
country of origin: United States of America (Q30)
material used: oil paint (Q296955) canvas (Q12321255)
depicts: Siege of Yorktown (Q459447) George Washington (Q23) Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau (Q508363) Benjamin Lincoln (Q817605) Christian of the Palatinate-Zweibrücken (Q88500)
instance of: painting (Q3305213)

catalog URL: https://www.aoc.gov/art/historic-rotunda-paintings/surrender-lord-cornwallis

information from the United States Capitol rotunda catalog

description: The painting Surrender of Lord Cornwallis by John Trumbull is on display in the Rotunda of the US Capitol. The subject of this painting is the surrender of the British army at Yorktown, Virginia, in 1781, which ended the last major campaign of the Revolutionary War.

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