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Watson and the Shark

John Singleton Copley, 1778

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

A shark twists toward a naked, pale boy thrashing in Havana harbor while nine men in a rowboat lunge to save him, one with a harpoon, one gripping a rope.

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