Difference between revisions of "Depictions of Wythe"
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File:BacheSilhouette.jpg|William Bache silhouette (1804). | File:BacheSilhouette.jpg|William Bache silhouette (1804). | ||
File:GreatAmericanLawyers1907Wythe.jpg|William Satchwell Leney (1807). | File:GreatAmericanLawyers1907Wythe.jpg|William Satchwell Leney (1807). | ||
− | File: | + | File:Longacre1843Wythe.jpg|J.B. Longacre (1823), after Leney. |
File:TrumbullDeclarationOfIndependence1818Detail.jpg|Detail from John Trumbull's ''Declaration of Independence'' (1818). | File:TrumbullDeclarationOfIndependence1818Detail.jpg|Detail from John Trumbull's ''Declaration of Independence'' (1818). | ||
File:LossingWythe.jpg|Lossing (1859). | File:LossingWythe.jpg|Lossing (1859). |
Revision as of 14:12, 4 March 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.
Miniature by Henry Benbridge (c. 1770), R.W. Norton Art Gallery.
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J.B. Longacre (1823), after Leney.
Marble bust by Felix de Weldon (1954).
Marble bust by Bryant Baker (1962).