Even Sir William Berkeley, the redoubtable cavalier governor, saw that he must yield

Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911 · [ca. 1890–1897]

This picture represents Sir William Berkeley signing the Capitulation of the Province of Virginia in the presence of the three parliamentary commissioners appointed to make that demand upon him. The man in the buff coat is Captain Curtis of the Guinea, frigate. the other seated figure is intended to represent Richard Bennet, Esq., who succeeded Sir William in the gubernatorial chair ("A Catalogue of Drawings Illustrating the Life of Gen. Washington, and of colonial life," Howard Pyle, 1897).