JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY’S Watson and the Shark (1778)

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Wall Art Classics: JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY’S Watson and the Shark  (1778)

3 Printable Art Images

It’s too late to save the leg, which has been bitten off below the knee. But Brook Watson, the floating blonde youth depicted in Copley’s oil painting, will be rescued from the jaws of this tiger. Though based on true events, we view this work from the distant vantage of its artist’s imagination: Copley had never visited Cuba, the backdrop of his fearful tableau. In Watson and the Shark, he reanimates an adventure that occurred in the waters around Havana, when the artist was just eleven years old.

One of the more prominent figures is Watson, the Black sailor who watches over the violent scene (represented here as inset Image A) While Watson is saved, the partially submerged figure with the flowing blond hair will not be rescued from these waters (represented here as inset Image B).

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