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Surrender of General Burgoyne at Saratoga

File:Surrender of General Burgoyne.jpg

Original - This 1822 painting by artist John Trumbull depicts the surrender of the British General John Burgoyne (center left) to American General Horatio Gates (center right) at Saratoga, New York, on October 17, 1777. The Battles of Saratoga were a turning point in the Revolutionary War, as they prevented the British from dividing New England from the rest of the colonies. The painting currently hangs in the United States Capitol Rotunda.

Reason

high quality, high resolution photograph of a historic painting depicting several important historical figures, high encyclopedic value. John Trumbull's other famous panting, Declaration of Independence, is already an FP, and this one is of the same quality.

Articles this image appears in

Battles of Saratoga, Saratoga, New York, John Burgoyne, Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760–1789), Horatio Gates, Daniel Morgan, Siege of Boston, Saratoga campaign, William Prescott, John Trumbull, William Phillips (British Army officer), Robert Troup, United States Capitol rotunda, Barzillai Lew

Creator

Painting by John Trumbull, photographed by the Architect of the Capitol.

• Support as nominator --AutoGyro (talk) 01:13, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
• Comment. What's going on with the coloration in the far left and far right? Is this an artifact of the photography or the scanning, or is this an incomplete restoration of the painting? Spikebrennan (talk) 18:12, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
  • It's from the painting, not the digitization process --AutoGyro (talk) 21:46, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
• For reference here is the painting as it appears in the US Capitol. I can't really make out the same shaded areas on the sides that Spikebrennan points out. Maybe it has to do with the lighting or the glass? Fletcher (talk) 23:37, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
  • Possibly, in which case I hope someone would be able to take a better picture than the Architect of the Capitol!!! --AutoGyro (talk) 05:13, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Not promoted MER-C 07:52, 14 November 2008 (UTC)