Letters & papers of John Singleton Copley and Henry Pelham, 1739-1776
A documentary edition of the correspondence and working papers of painters John Singleton Copley and his half-brother Henry Pelham, printed by the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston in 1914 for historians of colonial American art. Halftone plates reproduce colonial portraits and miniatures in warm sepia, plus pen sketches of engraving presses and mezzotint equipment annotated in eighteenth-century hand.
