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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.]
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File:BenbridgeWythe.jpg|Miniature by Henry Benbridge (c. 1770). Original at the [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).
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File:Trumbull1791Wythe.jpg|Pencil sketch from life, by John Trumbull, in Williamsburg (1791). Image courtesy of the [http://www.history.org/ Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.]
 
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: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). Original at the [http://www.vahistorical.org/ Virginia Historical Society].
 
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).
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File:TrumbullDeclarationOfIndependence1818Detail.jpg|Detail from John Trumbull's painting, ''Declaration of Independence'' (1818). Original at the [http://www.aoc.gov/capitol-hill/historic-rotunda-paintings/declaration-independence U.S. Capitol,] Washington, D.C.
File:Longacre1823Wythe.jpg|J.B. Longacre etching (1823), after Leney.
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File:Longacre1823Wythe.jpg|J.B. Longacre etching (1823), after Leney. From John Sanderson's [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/200827 ''Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence'' (vol. 2).
File:LossingWythe.jpg|Lossing illustration (1859).
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File:LossingWythe.jpg|Lossing illustration (1859). Image courtesy of the [http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?em6141 New York Public Library.]
File:Hall1868Wythe.jpg|William Bryan Hall (1868).
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File:Hall1868Wythe.jpg|William Bryan Hall (1868). Image courtesy of the [http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?420442 New York Public Library.]
File:Brotherhead1872Wythe.jpg|Brotherhead illustration (1872).
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File:Brotherhead1872Wythe.jpg|Brotherhead illustration (1872). From [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/3789959 ''The Centennial Book of the Signers.'']
File:Weir1876Wythe.jpg|John Ferguson Weir painting (1876), after John Trumbull.
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File:Weir1876Wythe.jpg|John Ferguson Weir painting (1876), after John Trumbull. Image from [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/1441178 ''History of the Portrait Collection, Independence National Historical Park,''] (2001). Original at [http://www.nps.gov/inde/ Independence National Historical Park,] Philadelphia.
File:Erekson1876Wythe.jpg|Erekson lithograph (1876).
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File:Erekson1876Wythe.jpg|Erekson lithograph (1876). Original at the [http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2003666901/ Library of Congress.]
File:Rosenthal1888Wythe.jpg|Rosenthal, after Leney (1888).
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File:Rosenthal1888Wythe.jpg|Rosenthal, after Leney (1888). Image courtesy of the [http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?421201 New York Public Library.]
File:NationalCyclopaedia1893Wythe.jpg|''National Cyclop&aelig;dia'' (1893).
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File:NationalCyclopaedia1893Wythe.jpg|From the [[National Cyclopaedia of American Biography|''National Cyclop&aelig;dia of American Biography'']] (1893).
File:Crossman1927Wythe.jpg|Portrait by William H. Crossman (1927), after John Trumbull.
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File:Crossman1927Wythe.jpg|Portrait by William H. Crossman (1927), after John Trumbull. Original with the [http://www.history.org/ Colonial Williamsburg Foundation,] Williamsburg, Virginia.
File:GeorgeWythePortrait.jpg|Wolf Law Library portrait.
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File:GeorgeWythePortrait.jpg|Wolf Law Library portrait, College of William & Mary Law School, Williamsburg.
 
File:DeWeldonWythe1954.jpg|Marble bust by [[wikipedia:Felix de Weldon|Felix de Weldon]] (1954).
 
File:DeWeldonWythe1954.jpg|Marble bust by [[wikipedia:Felix de Weldon|Felix de Weldon]] (1954).
File:Baker1962Wythe.jpg|Marble bust by [[wikipedia:Bryant Baker|Bryant Baker]] (1962).
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File:Baker1962Wythe.jpg|Marble bust by [[wikipedia:Bryant Baker|Bryant Baker]] (1962). Original at the [http://www.virginiacapitol.gov/ Virginia State Capitol,] Library of Virginia art collection, Richmond, Virginia.
File:SilvetteWythe1979.jpg|W&M Law School portrait, by David Silvette (1979).
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File:SilvetteWythe1979.jpg|Portrait by David Silvette (1979), College of William & Mary Law School, Williamsburg.
File:Kray2000Wythe.jpg|W&M Law School bronze statue, by Gordon S. Kray (2000).
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File:Kray2000Wythe.jpg|Bronze statue, by Gordon S. Kray (2000), College of William & Mary Law School, Williamsburg.
 
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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

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."


See also