THE 



AMERICAN 

 JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, &c. 



Art. I. — Account of the Trumbull Gallery of Paintings in Yale 

 College, City of New Haven. 



In the Prospectus of this Journal — painting and the other fine 

 arts are named as being within its plan. It was in accordance with 

 this view, that Col. Trumbull's Historical Pictures of the Ameri- 

 can Hevolution were mentioned in Vol. i, p. 200, again in Yol. 

 VIII, p. 168, and lastly an account is given by Col. Trumbull him- 

 self in Yol. XVI, 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. 



A commodious 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 first 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 eighty four, his eye has not 



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