Surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown
Date1845
Subject
George Washington
(American, 1732 - 1799)
Subject
Charles, Lord Cornwallis
(British, 1738 - 1805)
Medium/TechniqueInk and watercolor on paper; hand-colored lithograph
DimensionsOverall: 12 3/16 in. x 9 in. (30.96 cm x 22.86 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Wilmarth Lewis in memory of her aunt, Annie Burr Jennings, Vice Regent for Connecticut, 1939
Object numberM-1087/O
DescriptionThis print is an image of the historical moment at which the British General Cornwallis surrendered to General George Washington at the close of the American Revolutionary War.MarkingsPrinted in ink below the image: "Surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia Oct. 19, 1781, by which over 7.000 British & Hessians Became prisoners. / Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1845, by J. Baillie, in the clerks office in the district court for the southern district of N.Y.".
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