Difference between revisions of "Depictions of Wythe"

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File:GreatAmericanLawyers1907Wythe.jpg|William Satchwell Leney (1807).
 
File:GreatAmericanLawyers1907Wythe.jpg|William Satchwell Leney (1807).
 
File:LongacreWythe.jpg|J.B. Longacre, after Leney.
 
File:LongacreWythe.jpg|J.B. Longacre, after Leney.
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File:TrumbullDeclarationOfIndependence1818.jpg|Detail of John Trumbull's ''Declaration of Independence'' (1818).
 
File:LossingWythe.jpg|Lossing (1859).
 
File:LossingWythe.jpg|Lossing (1859).
 
File:Hall1868Wythe.jpg|William Bryan Hall (1868).
 
File:Hall1868Wythe.jpg|William Bryan Hall (1868).

Revision as of 22:45, 28 February 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.