The Copley head seems also to have been used in the sitting figure, which appeared in the _Impartial History of the War in America_ (London, 1780, p. 207), of which a fac-simile is elsewhere given. The same picture was reëngraved in even poorer manner in the Boston edition of the book with the same title (1781, p. 346). Other contemporary engravings are found in the _European Magazine_ (iv. p. 105); in the _Royal American Magazine_ (March, 1774, reproduced in fac-simile in the _Mem. Hist. Boston_, iii. 46); and in Murray's _Impartial History of the present War_ (1778, vol. i. p. 144). Cf. Drake's _Tea Leaves_, p. 286. The character of Hancock had pettinesses that have served to lower his popular reputation, and this last is well reflected in the drawing of his traits in Wells's _Sam. Adams_ (ii. 381). John Adams, whose robustness of character was quite at variance with that of his friend, was not blinded to sterling qualities in the rich man, who gave an adherence to a cause that few of his position in Massachusetts did (_John Adams's Works_, x. 259, 284). Adams's grandson speaks of the biography of Hancock in Sanderson's _Signers_ as a curious specimen of unfavorable judgment in the guise of eulogy, and a sketch by this same grandson, C. F. Adams, is in the _Penna. Mag. of Hist._, p. 73, and a memoir by G. Mountfort in Hunt's _American Merchants_, vol. ii. The accounts in Loring's _Hundred Boston Orators_, p. 72, and by Gen. W. H. Sumner in the _N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg._, April, 1854 (viii. 187), are rambling antiquarian tales.] [Illustration: JOHN HANCOCK. (_From the "Geschichte der Kriege."_)]