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

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)

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.