Depictions of Wythe

Stipple engraving of George Wythe by J.B. Longacre, illustration from volume one of Great American Lawyers, edited by William Draper Lewis (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: John C. Winston, 1907).

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

Images of George Wythe

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  Miniature by Henry Benbridge (c. 1770). Original at the R.W. Norton Art Gallery, Shreveport, Louisiana.

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  Pencil sketch from life, by John Trumbull, in Williamsburg (1791). Image courtesy of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.

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  William Bache silhouette (1804). From Shades of Our Ancestors, by Alice Van Leer Carrick (1928).

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  William Satchwell Leney etching (1807). Original at the Virginia Historical Society.

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  Detail from John Trumbull's painting, Declaration of Independence (1818). Original at the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.

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  J.B. Longacre etching (1823), after Leney. From John Sanderson's Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence (vol. 2).

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  Lossing illustration (1859). Image courtesy of the New York Public Library.

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  William Bryan Hall (1868). Image courtesy of the New York Public Library.

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  Brotherhead illustration (1872). From The Centennial Book of the Signers.

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  John Ferguson Weir painting (1876), after John Trumbull. Image from History of the Portrait Collection, Independence National Historical Park, (2001). Original at Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia.

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  Erekson lithograph (1876). Original at the Library of Congress.

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  Rosenthal, after Leney (1888). Image courtesy of the New York Public Library.

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  From the National Cyclopædia of American Biography (1893).

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  Portrait by William H. Crossman (1927), after John Trumbull. Original with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, Virginia.

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  Wolf Law Library portrait, College of William & Mary Law School, Williamsburg.

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  Portrait by Eugenie DeLand Saugstad (1939). Original with the Virginia Historical Society collections, currently on display at the Hampton History Museum, Hampton, Virginia.

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  Marble bust by Felix de Weldon (1954), College of William & Mary Law School.

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  Marble bust by Bryant Baker (1962). Original at the Virginia State Capitol, Library of Virginia art collection, Richmond, Virginia.

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  Portrait by David Silvette (1979), College of William & Mary Law School.

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  Bronze statue, by Gordon S. Kray (2000), College of William & Mary Law School.

See also

• Bicentennial Postcards