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File:BenbridgeWythe.jpg|Miniature by Henry Benbridge (c. 1770), [http://www.rwnaf.org/collections/item?id=1617 R.W. Norton Art Gallery.]
 
File:BenbridgeWythe.jpg|Miniature by Henry Benbridge (c. 1770), [http://www.rwnaf.org/collections/item?id=1617 R.W. Norton Art Gallery.]
 
File:Trumbull1791Wythe.jpg|Pencil sketch from life, by John Trumbull, in Williamsburg (1791).
 
File:Trumbull1791Wythe.jpg|Pencil sketch from life, by John Trumbull, in Williamsburg (1791).
File:BacheSilhouette.jpg|William Bache silhouette (1804).
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File:BacheSilhouette.jpg|William Bache silhouette (1804). From [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/593884 ''Shades of Our Ancestors,''] by Alice Van Leer Carrick (1928).  
File:Leney1807Wythe.jpg|William Satchwell Leney etching (1807).
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File:Leney1807Wythe.jpg|William Satchwell Leney etching (1807). Original at the [http://www.vahistorical.org/ Virginia Historical Society].
 
File:TrumbullDeclarationOfIndependence1818Detail.jpg|Detail from John Trumbull's painting, ''Declaration of Independence'' (1818).
 
File:TrumbullDeclarationOfIndependence1818Detail.jpg|Detail from John Trumbull's painting, ''Declaration of Independence'' (1818).
 
File:Longacre1823Wythe.jpg|J.B. Longacre etching (1823), after Leney.
 
File:Longacre1823Wythe.jpg|J.B. Longacre etching (1823), after Leney.
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File:Kray2000Wythe.jpg|W&M Law School bronze statue, by Gordon S. Kray (2000).
 
File:Kray2000Wythe.jpg|W&M Law School bronze statue, by Gordon S. Kray (2000).
 
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==See also==
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*[[Bicentennial Postcards]]
  
 
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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

"George Wythe, Esq.," engraved for the American Gleaner, by William Satchwell Leney. "Published Jany. 1807 by S. Grantland, Richmond, Virga." Original at the Virginia Historical Society.


See also