until 1867, the Trumbull family. 1867-1948, descended in an English aristocratic family. 1948, dealer, Harry Shaw Newman (New York, New York, USA). 1948-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, 1787
- John Trumbull, American, 1756-1843
Oil on canvas
- Unframed: 13 7/8 × 21 inches (35.2 × 53.3 cm)
- 18 3/8 × 25 7/16 × 1 3/4 inches (46.7 × 64.6 × 4.4 cm)
Gift of Dexter M. Ferry, Jr.
48.216
On View
- American, Level 2, West
Department
American Art before 1950
Details
Art Quarterly 11, 4 (Autumn 1948): pp. 357-359 (ill.). Bulletin of the DIA 28, 2 (1949): p. 43 (ill.). Sizer, Theodore. Works of Colonel John Trumbull. New Haven, CT, 1950, p, 75, nos. 944 and 945. Jaffe, I.B. John Trumbull. Boston, 1975, pp. 128-129, no. 103 (figs. 100-105).
John Trumbull, Surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, 1787, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dexter M. Ferry, Jr., 48.216.