An adventurous artistic delivery in the 18th century

Boy with a Flying Squirrel is a painting created by John Singleton Copley in Boston. The artist entrusted his work to a team of several intermediaries to cross the ocean, thus avoiding the risks of a maritime shipwreck. The canvas thus transited between the hands of Roger Hale, Captain R. G. Bruce, and Lord Buchan before arriving at Joshua Reynolds in 1766.