Lee+Surrendering+to+Grant+at+Appomattox

Date: ca. 1870
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1981/1981.139_1a.jpg?itok=vo9LALzh width="380" height="270" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/lee-surrendering-to-grant-at-appomattox-4607"]] || Title: **Lee Surrendering to Grant at Appomattox**

Artist: **Alonzo Chappel** Born: New York, New York 1828 Died: Middle Island, New York 1887

Medium: oil on paperboard Dimensions: 12 3/8 x 17 1/4 in. (31.4 x 43.8 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Nancy L. Ross in memory of Patricia Firestone Chatham

Accession: 1981.139 ||
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