diff --git a/core/src/processing/awt/PGraphicsJava2D.java b/core/src/processing/awt/PGraphicsJava2D.java
index 92b10cb33..ee41fe052 100644
--- a/core/src/processing/awt/PGraphicsJava2D.java
+++ b/core/src/processing/awt/PGraphicsJava2D.java
@@ -3007,7 +3007,19 @@ public class PGraphicsJava2D extends PGraphics {
   public void copy(PImage src,
                    int sx, int sy, int sw, int sh,
                    int dx, int dy, int dw, int dh) {
-    g2.drawImage((Image) src.getNative(),
+    Image nativeImage;
+    if (src instanceof PGraphicsJava2D) {
+      // if it's a Java2D drawing surface, use its backing image
+      nativeImage = ((PGraphicsJava2D) src).image;
+    } else if (src.getNative() instanceof Image) {  // may be null
+      // if it's something else that has a java.awt.Image as its native backing
+      nativeImage = (Image) src.getNative();
+    } else {
+      // much slower: grab the pixels with get() and create a native image
+      nativeImage = (Image) src.get(sx, sy, sw, sh).getNative();
+    }
+
+    g2.drawImage(nativeImage,
                  dx, dy, dx + dw, dy + dh,
                  sx, sy, sx + sw, sy + sh, null);
   }
diff --git a/core/todo.txt b/core/todo.txt
index 6f3c91eff..6bd367514 100644
--- a/core/todo.txt
+++ b/core/todo.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 1290 (4.1.2?)
+X Fix ClassCastException with copy() and PGraphicsJava2D
+X   https://github.com/processing/processing4/issues/624
+
+
 _ show an error when calling clear() on the main drawing surface
 _   https://github.com/processing/processing4/issues/627