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A Youth Rescued from a Shark (Watson and the Shark)
Artist/Maker
John Singleton Copley
Great Britain, 1738 - 1815
Artist/Maker
Valentine Green
Great Britain, 1739 - 1813
Date1779
MediumHand-colored Mezzotint
Dimensionsimage: 17 1/4 × 22 3/4 in. (43.8 × 57.8 cm)
ClassificationsPrint
Credit LineJKM Collection, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Object numberW1999.146
DescriptionDepicts a miraculous rescue in the life of the future Lord Mayor of London, Brook Watson, from a shark attack in Havana harbor in 1749. This Mezzotint was made by Valentine Green from Copley's original oil painting.On View
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