Moore’s House, at Yorktown, Virginia, in which Lord Cornwallis Signed Articles of Capitulation to the Combined American and French Forces, October 19, 1781
Date1834
Artist
John Gadsby Chapman
(American, 1808 - 1889)
Medium/TechniquePainting: oil on panel
Frame: wood, gesso, gilding, iron
DimensionsOverall (Framed): 8 3/4 in. × 11 3/4 in. × 1 3/4 in. (22.23 cm × 29.85 cm × 4.45 cm)
Credit LineAcquired through the generosity of Lucy S. Rhame and an anonymous donor, 2017
Conservation courtesy of The Founders, Washington Committee Endowment Fund
Object numberH-5541/A-B
DescriptionPainting: A horizontal, rectangular landscape painting of Moore’s House at Yorktown surrounded by cultivated fields with the York River in the distance. A foreground of dark vegetation frames the composition with a single large tree to the left and a horned cow at the center. A smaller outbuilding is set beyond the house, and a split-rail fence extends from its corner to the edge of the painting. Inscribed on back of panel in ink over cream/green paint: “view of the House at York Town in which the capit-/ ulation was signed on the surrender of Cornwallis drawn/ on the spot by J.G. Chapman of Virginia in 1834./ J.K.P./ P. Kemble Paulding.”
Frame: Original gilded frame with complex molded profile of ovolos and cavettos. The frame is composed of two parts, a frame and a liner, assembled with mitered joints. The outside edges of the frame are painted yellow/brown; later pine struts running the height of the frame are attached to the outside edges.
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