Difference between revisions of "Depictions of Wythe"
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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). | File:BacheSilhouette.jpg|William Bache silhouette (1804). | ||
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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. |
Revision as of 15:19, 5 March 2014
As a signer of the Declaration of Independence, George Wythe's portrait was much sought after by artists.
Images of George Wythe

Illustration from John Sanderson's Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, Vol. 2 (Philadelphia: R.W. Pomeroy, 1823). "Drawn and Engraved, by J.B. Longacre, from a Portrait in the American Gleaner."
Miniature by Henry Benbridge (c. 1770), R.W. Norton Art Gallery.
Marble bust by Felix de Weldon (1954).
Marble bust by Bryant Baker (1962).