In 1772, when Adams was forty-nine, John Hancock commissioned Copley to paint pictures of Adams and himself, to commemorate their political union, and the two portraits hung for many years in the Hancock mansion on Beacon Street in Boston, before they were given to the town. That of Adams is a three-quarters length, and shows him standing at a table, holding a paper, in the attitude of speaking (Perkins's _Copley_, p. 28). As engraved by H. B. Hall, it is given in Wells's _Life of Samuel Adams_, vol. i.; and it is also engraved in Delaplaine's _Repository_ (1815); in Bancroft, vol. vii. (orig. ed.), and in other places, as well as, on wood, in the _Mem. Hist. of Boston_ (iii. 35). After having hung for some years in Faneuil Hall, it has now been transferred to the Art Museum. It was engraved—the bust only—by Paul Revere, for the _Royal American Mag._, April, 1774, and a reproduction of this is given by Wells (vol. ii.). A copy of the original was made by J. Mitchell, and from this a mezzotint by Samuel Okey was issued at Newport in 1775. Another and smaller picture, also by Copley (Perkins, p. 29), and said to have been painted in 1770, hangs in Memorial Hall, Cambridge, and has been engraved in the _Mem. Hist. of Boston_, ii. 438. Cf. Sanderson's _Signers_, vol. ix. The Copley type of head characterizes the engraving by J. Norman, given above from the Boston edition of a current history. The London edition (1780) of the same book has a picture which has little resemblance to the Copley type, as will be seen by the fac-simile likewise herewith given, and marked "London, 1780." There was a picture made late in life by John Johnson, which has been destroyed; but from a mezzotint of it, made in 1797 by Graham, H. B. Hall reëngraved it for Wells's third volume, and on wood in Higginson's _Larger History_, p. 255. The statue by Miss Whitney follows the Copley head. One copy of this is in the Capitol at Washington, and another in Dock Square, in Boston.—ED.] Their influence among all classes was widespread and profound. [Illustration: SAMUEL ADAMS, LONDON, 1780.]