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As a signer of the [[Declaration of Independence]], George Wythe's portrait was much sought after by artists. | As a signer of the [[Declaration of Independence]], George Wythe's portrait was much sought after by artists. | ||
==Images of George Wythe== | ==Images of George Wythe== | ||
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Revision as of 13:12, 4 April 2014

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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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.