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From a sign: The portrait over the fireplace is the famous "Annapolis Portrait" by Charles Wilson Peale of "Washington, Lafayette, and Tilghman" at Yorktown. It was painted by Peale in 1784 at the request of the General Assembly and was installed in the State House in 1785. ...
The two swords in the case to the left of the fireplace belonged to Col Tench Tilghman, who is wearing one of them in the painting of "Washington, Lafayette, and Tilghman at Yorktown." He is also holding a copy of the Articles of Capitulation which he carried from Yorktown to the Continental Congress, then meeting in Philadelphia. |