Samuel Copp Silhouette
National Museum of American History

Samuel Copp Silhouette

Master Hankes · 1830

paper (overall material)
National Museum of American History
CC0 — Public Domain
National Museum of American History

This is a silhouette portrait of John Brown Copp (b. 1779) completed around 1830. The silhouette was is signed “Syracuse, New York on Tuesday 14 September 1830 by Master Hankes.” Master Hankes likely refers to Jarvis (sometimes spelled Jervis) Hankes, who made silhouettes of John Quincy Adams's family in 1829.

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