Description: Own a high-quality copy of a masterpiece by one of the greatest artists in history HIGH RESOLUTION, 300 DPI, SEMI-GLOSS PRINT/POSTERUnframed, comes shipped In Mailing TubeCopley painted this rapid study for "Watson and the Shark" from his first rendering of the iconic work—now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington—in preparation for successive versions, found in the collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. It depicts the future Lord Mayor of London, Brook Watson, who, as a teenager, lost his leg to a shark while swimming in Havana harbor in 1749. A Black sailor forms the apex of the composition, holding a rope for the victim who later famously defended the slave trade in the West Indies. Copley’s dramatic depiction of an ordinary man in the midst of an extraordinary event of unresolved peril in the Atlantic World revolutionized British-American history painting.
Price: 21.99 USD
Location: Brentwood, California
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Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Artist: John Singleton Copley
Image Orientation: Landscape
Size: Medium
Title: WATSON AND THE SHARK
Period: Neoclassicism/Romantism (1770-1840)
Material: Semi-Gloss Paper
Original/Licensed Reprint: Licensed Reprint
Framing: Unframed
Subject: Famous Paintings/Painters, Fish & Water Animals, Shark Attack
Type: Print
Year of Production: made to order
Item Height: 17 in
Theme: Disasters, History
Style: Neoclassical
Features: White Border
Production Technique: Giclée Print
Culture: American-British
Item Width: 20 in
Time Period Produced: 1750-1799
