Object: George Washington at Yorktown

George Washington at Yorktown

Artist:

Unknown (after Charles Willson Peale or James Peale)

Description:

Oil painting; full length standing portait of military officer in uniform, light pants and waistcoat with dark blue jacket, gold trim and epaulets and sword; legs crossed and hand resting on the barrel of a field gun; flags draped in foreground and on ground behind figure; figure with feathered hat to rear right tending horse; deistant landscape with windmill, horse and wagon, sailing vessels on body of water.

Credit:

Kirby Collection of Historical Paintings, Lafayette College, Easton, PA; Gift of Allan P. Kirby (class of 1915)

Collection:

Kirby Collection of Historical Paintings

Dimensions:

71.12 W x 92.075 H (in cm.)