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Surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown by John Trumbull
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Study for “The Surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown”
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NCMA curator John Coffey talks about Trumbull’s approach to creating history paintings. In this example, Trumbull reimagined the last surrender of the Revolutionary War by including figures who weren’t actually present.
