Object Record
Images

Metadata
Object name |
Painting |
Title |
News from Yorktown, 1781 |
Artist or maker |
John Ward Dunsmore (1856-1945) |
Date |
1913 |
Place of origin |
United States |
Materials and techniques |
oil on canvas |
Physical description |
News from Yorktown. Night time scene. Man on white horse holding a piece of paper in his right hand. His right arm is stretched out trying to give the paper to a man peaking his head out behind his front door. A man on foot, dressed in red at the bottom right, is holding on to the horses reins. Wood frame is painted gold and has a small plaque attached to the bottom center. |
Past exhibit |
Dunsmore: Illustrating the American Revolutionary War |
Catalogue number |
1936.02.004 |
Collection name |
Paintings and Sculpture |
Credit line |
Gift of George A. Zabriskie Memorial, 1936 |