| Preview | Description | Artist | Notes |
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 | Battle Of Lake Erie by William Henry Powell 1873 U.S. Capitol Art Collection Washington, D.C. | Powell, William Henry |  Description: Scene of the Battle of Lake Erie with Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry in a rowboat with his crew. They are surrounded by sailing ships. A dead figure is in the water in the lower right corner. |
 | Discovery Of The Mississippi By De Soto A.d. 1541 by William Henry Powell 1847 U.S. Capitol Art Collection Washington, D.C. | Powell, William Henry | Powell's dramatic and brilliantly colored canvas shows Spanish conqueror and explorer Hernando DeSoto, riding a white horse, the first European to view the Mississippi River, in 1541. As De Soto and his troops approach, the Native Americans in front of their tepees watch, and a chief holds out a peace pipe. In the foreground is a jumble of weapons... |
 | Surrender of General Burgoyne at Saratoga, New York by John Trumbull 1822 U.S. Capitol Art Collection Washington, D.C. | Trumbull, John | The scene of the surrender of the British General John Burgoyne at Saratoga, on October 17, 1777, was a turning point in the American Revolutionary War that prevented the British from dividing New England from the rest of the colonies. The central figure is the American General Horatio Gates, who refused to take the sword offered by General Burgoyne,... |
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