Fedor Karzhavin
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Fedor or Fyodor Vasilevich Karzhavin was a Russian traveller, writer, and translator. After spending some time in Paris, he worked in Martinique as a trader with the American colonial economy. He subs
Karzhavin
"The louse, ventral view"; sketch from Description of lice seen through a microscope, Karzhavin, 1789
George Wythe
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George Wythe was an American academic, scholar, and judge who was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. The first of the seven signatories of the United States Declaration of Independence
Portrait by James B. Longacre after a William Satchwell Leney engraving, 1825
The George Wythe House in Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Virginia
In John Trumbull's Declaration of Independence, Wythe is in profile farthest to the viewer's left. Trumbull's 1818 painting was used for the back of the U.S. $2 bill, but Wythe's image was cut out of that depiction.
George Wythe gravestone at St. John's Episcopal Church in Richmond, Virginia