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As a signer of the [[Declaration of Independence]], George Wythe's portrait was much sought-after by artists.
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As a signer of the [[Declaration of Independence]], George Wythe's portrait was much sought after by artists.
  
 
==Images of George Wythe==
 
==Images of George Wythe==

Revision as of 00:20, 1 March 2014

As a signer of the Declaration of Independence, George Wythe's portrait was much sought after by artists.

Images of George Wythe

"George Wythe, Nat. 1726—Ob. 1806." Engraving by Albert Rosenthal, Philadelphia, 1888. "From a print by W.S. Leney in the possession of Frederick D. Stone, Phila." Published in Hampton L. Carson's History of the Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Promulgation of the Constitution of the United States, Vol. 1 (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1889), op. 227. Image courtesy of the New York Public Library.


  • Miniature by Henry Benbridge (c. 1770), R.W. Norton Art Gallery.

  • Sketch from life, by John Trumbull, in Williamsburg (1791).

  • William Bache silhouette (1804).

  • William Satchwell Leney (1807).

  • J.B. Longacre, after Leney.

  • Detail of John Trumbull's Declaration of Independence (1818).

  • Lossing (1859).

  • William Bryan Hall (1868).

  • Brotherhead (1872).

  • John Ferguson Weir (1876), after John Trumbull.

  • Erekson (1876).

  • Rosenthal (1888).

  • National Cyclopædia (1893).

  • Portrait by William H. Crossman (1927), after John Trumbull.

  • Wolf Law Library portrait.

  • Marble bust by Felix de Weldon (1954).

  • Marble bust by Bryant Baker (1962).

  • W&M Law School portrait (1979).

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