Annapolis: Maryland State House - Washington, Lafayette & Tilghman at Yorktown

            Washington, Lafayette & Tilghman at Yorktown, a monumental painting hanging in the Senate Committee Room in the Maryland State House, by Charles Willson Peale was commissioned by the Maryland General Assembly and completed in 1784. It captures the historic moment following the British surrender at Yorktown. The artwork notably includes George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Lieutenant Colonel Tench Tilghman, a Marylander and aide-de-camp to Washington. Peale took particular care in portraying historical accuracy in the figures and the background setting of the surrender.

The Maryland State House, located inside State Circle, is the oldest U.S. state capitol in continuous legislative use, and houses the Maryland General Assembly, plus the offices of the Governor and Lieutenant Governor.  The current two-story brick building, the third statehouse on the site, was constructed from 1772 to 1797 to the Georgian style design of Joseph Horatio Anderson and features the largest wooden dome in the United States constructed without nails. An black and gold Italian marble annex was constructed between 1902 and 1906, replacing an earlier annex, under the supervision of Baltimore architects Baldwin & Pennington.

From November 1783 to August 1784, Annapolis was the capital of the United States, and the Congress of Confederation, also known as the Continental Congress, met in the Maryland State House.  It was in the Old Senate Chamber that George Washington resigned his commission as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army on December 23, 1783; and that that Congress ratified the Treaty of Paris on January 14, 1784, formally ending the American Revolutionary War.

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