A Youth Rescued from a Shark

Print. Usually now known as 'Brook Watson and the Shark', and commemorating Watson's rescue from an incident in which he lost his leg to a shark in the harbour of Havana, Cuba, the original oil painting is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Object Details

ID: PAH7458
Type: Print
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Green, Valentine; Copley, John Singleton
Date made: 31 May 1779
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 508 x 612 mm
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