Samuel Copp Silhouette
date: label: date made
content: 1830
name: label: maker
content: Master Hankes
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
label: Description
content: The Copp Collection contains a variety of household objects that the Copp family of Connecticut used from around 1700 until the mid-1800s. Part of the Puritan Great Migration from England to Boston, the family eventually made their home in New London County, Connecticut, where their textiles, clothes, utensils, ceramics, books, bibles, and letters provide a vivid picture of daily life. More of the collection from the Division of Home and Community Life can be viewed by searching accession number 28810.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Copp Collection
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John Brenton Copp
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.006858
label: catalog number
content: 6858
label: accession number
content: 28810
objectType: label: Object Name
content: silhouette
label: Other Terms
content: Silhouette; Pictures
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/8 in x 4 5/8 in; 7.9375 cm x 11.7475 cm