Brook Watson Being Attacked by a Shark in Havana Harbour… by John Singleton Copley

Oval painting of men in a rowing boat pulling a figure from shark-infested harbour water, with sailing ships behind.

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Brook Watson Being Attacked by a Shark in Havana Harbour, 1749, John Singleton Copley (1738), Wikimedia Commons. Via artnap.com

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An oval composition shows a group of men crowded into a small rowing boat, several reaching toward a nude figure struggling in dark water beneath them. Masted sailing ships and a distant waterfront with towers fill the hazy background.

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1738

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Wikimedia Commons

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