Assorted Group of Eight Books PertainingAssorted Group of Eight Books Pertaining to Native American Tribes, Cherokee, Santee Sioux, Nez Perce and Choctaw Comprising Cherokee Pictorial Book with Catechism and Hymns, compiled and translated by Rev. A. N. Chamberlin, published by T.W. Foreman, Printer, Tahlequah, I.T., 1888; Embroidered-Cloth-Covered Cherokee Missionary Book, 1880; Bible Translated into Cherokee, American Bible Society, New York, 1860; Model First Reader, Wayawa Tokaheya, prepared in English-Dakota [Santee Sioux] by S.R. Riggs, LL.D., published Geo. Sherwood & Co., Chicago, 1873; A Numipu or Nez-Perce Grammer, 'by a Missionary of the Society of Jesus in the Rocky Mountains', published by Indian Boys' Press, Desmet, Idaho, 1891; Grammar of the Choctaw Language, by the Rev. Cyrus Byington, American Philosophical Society, published by McCalla & Stavely, Printers, 237-9 Dock Street, Philadelphia, 1870; Three Years Travels throughout the Interior Parts of North America, by Capt. Jonathan Carver, printed by Samuel Etheridge for West and Greenleaf, 56 Cornhill, Boston, 1802; and Life, Three Sermons and Some of the Miscellaneous Writings of Rev. Jesse Greene, 'by his surviving companion, Mary Greene', published by Patterson & Julian - Express Machine Press, Lexington, MO, 1852. Estimate $ 150-250
JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY (AMERICAN 1738-1815).JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY (AMERICAN 1738-1815). PAIR OF BUST-LENGTH PASTEL PORTRAITS OF MR. AND MRS. JOSEPH GREENE, 1767.
Joseph and Mary Greene, who was a cousin of her husband's and a celebrated Boston beauty, sat for these portraits shortly after their marriage. Both were twenty-two years of age.
Each on paper, 23 ¼ x 17 inches. His portrait signed and dated "J.S. Copley/ fect. 1767" c.r., hers signed and dated "J.S. Copley/ pinx. 1767" l.l. Each in original period frame with ormolu corner mounts, the reverse with loan labels for the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the American Federation of Arts.
Provenance: Descended to the sitters' granddaughter, Anne Reading Greene of Milton, Massachusetts; thence to a cousin, James Murray Forbes of Milton, circa 1876, and through the Forbes family; purchased by George C. Seybolt in 1982.
Literature: Listed, discussed and illustrated in Jules Prown, "John Singleton Copley: In America 1738-1774," pp. 58, 216 and figs. 213, 214; Parker-Wheeler, "John Singleton Copley: American Portraits," p. 222-3, pl. 127.Exhibited: "American Master Drawings and Watercolors," American Federation of the Arts, New York, November 23, 1976 - January 23, 1977; Mrs. Greene in "John Singleton Copley 1738-1815," National Gallery, Metropolitan Museum, and Museum of Fine Art, Boston, 1965-1966; illustrated in the exhibition's catalog, pp. 49, 51, 137, no. 32; "The Works of John Singleton Copley," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1938, no. 38.