Watson and the Shark
John Singleton Copley, 1778, Detroit Institute of Art
‘Watson and the Shark’ is a work by John Singleton Copley (1738–1815). It is dated 1778. It is part of the collection Detroit Institute of Art. Wikidata links the work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘Romanticism’.
The work was made in London. It is made of oil paint and canvas. It measures 229 × 178 cm. The work belongs to the genre history painting. The things depicted include shark attack, Havana, Brook Watson, and man.
The catalogue has 249 more works by John Singleton Copley.