AMERICAN 
JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, &c. 
Arr. I.— Account of the Trumbull Gallery of Passitisigs in Yale 
College, City of New Haven. 
In the Prospectus of this Journal—painting and the other fine 
arts are named as being withinits plan. It wasin accordance with . 
this view, that Col. Trumbull’s Historical Pictures of the Ameri- 
can Revolution were mentioned in Vol. 1, p. 200, again in Vol. 
vin, p. 168, and lastly an account is given by Col. Trumbull him- 
self in Vol. xv1, p. 163, of the permanent location of the pictures 
in the Rotunda of the Capitol at Washington. The studies of all 
the historical pictures, with many other original paintings of the 
same artist, were deposited by him in Yale College in 1832, to 
become, after his decease, the property of the Institution, upon 
the condition that the proceeds of their exhibition shall be devo- 
ted, forever, to the support of indigent students in Yale College. 
_ Acommodious stone building (a view of which forms the fron- 
tispiece of the present number) was erected in 1831, for the re- 
ception of the paintings. 'The basement is appropriated to offices 
and other purposes, and the space above is divided into two apart- 
ments, each thirty feet square and twenty four feet high, lighted 
from the sky. One of these rooms, that which is Baas entered, is 
devoted to miscellaneous collections, of pictures, statuary, anti- 
quities, &c.; the second room is the Trumbull Gallery ; all the 
pictures which it contains are the productions of the pencil of 
Col. ‘Trumbull, excepting only, his own portrait by Waldo & 
Jewett. 
The father of American Historical Painting still survives, in the 
vigor of his faculties; at the age of yg Be four, his eye has not 
. Vol. xxx1x, No. 2.—Jul ip Siplniabet, 1840. ; 
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