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John Singleton Copley (painter) American, 1738 - 1815 Watson and the Shark, 1778 oil on canvas overall: 182.1 x 229.7 cm (71 11/16 x 90 7/16 in.) framed: 241.3 x 264.2 x 10.1 cm (95 x 104 x 4 in.) Ferdinand Lammot Belin Fund 1963.6.1 On View |
Object 8 of 12
| Perkins, Augustus Thorndike. Supplementary List of Paintings by John Singleton Copley. Boston, n.d.: 9. | |
| 1778 | Royal Academy, Exh. cat. London, 1778: no. 65. |
| 1778 | The General Evening Post, 28-30 April 1778. |
| 1778 | The Public Advertiser, 28 April 1778. |
| 1778 | The Morning Post, and Daily Advertiser (London), 25 April 1778. |
| 1778 | The St. James's Chronicle; or, British Evening-Post, 25-30 April 1778. |
| 1778 | "A Young Painter," [Letter to the Editor.] The General Advertiser, and Morning Intelligencer, 19 May 1778. |
| 1778 | The General Advertiser, and Morning Intelligencer, 27 April 1778. |
| 1778 | The Morning Chronicle, and London Advertiser, 25 April 1778. |
| 1796 | Pasquin, Anthony. Memoirs of the Royal Academicians. London, 1796: 136-137. |
| 1824 | Neal, John. [Essay on American Art] Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 16 (August 1824). Reprinted in Observations on Amer. Art, Selections ... Writings of John Neal (1793- 1876). H. Dickson, ed. State College, PA., 1943: 26-27. |
| 1829 | Lieber, Francis, ed. Encyclopaedia Americana, 13 vols. Philadelphia, 1829-1833: 3 (1830): 520. |
| 1829 | Knapp, Samuel L. Lectures on American Literature, with Remarks on some Passages of American History. New York, 1829: 191. |
| 1832 | Cunningham, Allan. The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters, Sculptors, and Architects. London, 1829-1833: 5 (1832):177-178. |
| 1834 | Dunlap, William. A History of the Rise and Progress of The Arts of Design in the United States. 2 vols. Reprinted in 3. New York, 1969: 1:106, 116-118, 120, 127. |
| 1834 | Trollope, William. A History of the Royal Foundation of Christ's Hospital. London, 1834: 353. |
| 1841 | Everett, Edward. "Curiousity Baffled." The Boston Book. Boston, 1841: 228-248. |
| 1847 | Tuckerman, Henry T. Artist-Life: or Sketches of American Painters. New York and Philadelphia, 1847: 25-26. |
| 1857 | Art Treasures of the United Kingdom collected at Manchester in 1857. Exh. cat. Manchester, 1857: 82. |
| 1867 | Tuckerman, Henry T. Book of the Artists: American Artist Life. New York and London, 1867: 78-79. |
| 1873 | Perkins, Augustus Thorndike. A Sketch of the Life and a List of Some of the Works of John Singleton Copley. Boston, 1873: 20-21, 128. |
| 1882 | Amory, Martha Babcock. The Domestic and Artistic Life of John Singleton Copley, R.A.. Boston, 1882: 70-75. |
| 1905 | Isham, Samuel. The History of American Painting. New York, 1905: 26, 38. |
| 1905 | Graves, Algernon. The Royal Academy of Arts: A Complete Dictionary of Contributors and their Work from its Foundation in 1769 to 1904. 8 vols. London, 1905-1906: 2:159. |
| 1914 | Graves, Algernon. A Century of Loan Exhibitions, 1813-1912. vols. London, 1913: 1:206. |
| 1915 | Bayley, Frank W. The Life and Works of John Singleton Copley. Boston, 1915: 253-254. |
| 1924 | Webster, J. Clarence. Sir Brook Watson, Friend of the Loyalists. Sackville, New Brunswick, 1924. |
| 1937 | Allan, George A. T. Christ's Hospital. London and Glasgow, 1937: 67-68. |
| 1938 | Wind, Edgar. "The Revolution in History Painting." Journal of the Warburg Institute 2 (1938/1939): 119. |
| 1938 | Cunningham, Charles C. "Introduction." John Singleton Copley, 1738-1815; Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Pastels, Miniatures and Drawings Exh. cat. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1938: 12-13. |
| 1943 | Mayor, A. Hyatt. "Early American Painters in England." Proceedings of the American Philosphical Society 87, no. 1 (July 1943): 107. |
| 1943 | Soby, James Thrall and Dorothy C. Miller. Romantic Painting in America. Exh. cat. Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1943: 9. |
| 1946 | American Painting from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day. Exh. cat. Tate Gallery, London, 1946: no. 49. |
| 1947 | Richardson, Edgar P. "Watson and the Shark by John Singleton Copley." Art Quarterly 10, no. 3 (Summer 1947): 213-218, fig. 3. |
| 1951 | The First Hundred Years of the Royal Academy, 1796-1868. Exh. cat. The Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1951-1952: no. 420. |
| 1953 | Waterhouse, Ellis. Painting in Britain, 1530 to 1790. Baltimore, Maryland, 1953: 160, 203, pl. 172. |
| 1953 | The Christ's Hospital Book. London, 1953: repro. opp. 280. |
| 1956 | Richardson, Edgar P. Painting in America. New York, 1956: 94, 316. |
| 1965 | John Singleton Copley, Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1965-1966: no. 68a. |
| 1966 | Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds., A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 2:396, color repro. |
| 1966 | Prown, Jules David. John Singleton Copley. 2 vols. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1966: 2: 267-274, 298, 387, 459-461, fig. 371. |
| 1968 | Royal Academy of Arts Bicentenary Exhibition, 1768-1968. Exh. cat. Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1968-1969: no. 505. |
| 1970 | American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 46, repro. |
| 1974 | Gerdts, William H. The Great American Nude. New York, 1974: detail repro. 33, 38. |
| 1975 | Paulson, Ronald. Emblem and Expression; Meaning in English Art of the Eighteenth Century. London, 1975: 202-203 repro. |
| 1975 | Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: 392, color repro. 393. |
| 1975 | Stein, Roger B. Seascape and the American Imagination. New York, 1975: 18, 20, 112, color repro. opp. 32, pl. 1. |
| 1976 | Stein, Roger B. "Copley's Watson and the Shark and Aesthetics in the 1770s." In Calvin Israel, ed., Discoveries and Considerations. Essays on Early American Letters and Aesthetics, Presented to Harold Jantz. Albany, 1976: 85-130, repro. 88. |
| 1977 | Jaffe, Irma B. "John Singleton Copley's Watson and the Shark." American Art Journal 9, no. 1 (May 1977): 15-25, repro. |
| 1978 | King, Marian. Adventures in Art: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1978: 74-75, pl. 44. |
| 1979 | Abrams, Ann Uhry. "Politics, Prints and John Singleton Copley's Watson and the Shark." Art Bulletin 61, no. 2 (June 1979): 265-276. |
| 1979 | Watson, Ross. National Gallery of Art. London, 1979: 95, pl. 83, color repro. |
| 1980 | American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 139, repro. |
| 1980 | Kemp, Martin. [Letter to the Editor]. ArtB 62, no. 4 (December 1980): 647. |
| 1980 | Wilmerding 1980, 48, color repro. 49. |
| 1980 | Wilmerding, John. American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1980: 10, 13, no. 5, color repro. |
| 1981 | Williams 1981, 30-31, repro. 32-33, color repro. 46. |
| 1984 | Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 388, no. 552, color repro. |
| 1986 | Reader's Digest Services. Sharks: Silent Hunters of the Deep. Sydney and New York, 1986: 132-135. |
| 1987 | Wilmerding, John. American Marine Painting. Rev. ed. of A History of American Marine Painting, 1968. New York, 1987: 33-35, color repro. 32. |
| 1988 | Wilmerding, John. American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art. Rev. ed. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1988: 56, no. 5, color repro. |
| 1988 | Bilder aus der Neuen Welt, Amerikanische Malerei des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts, Exh. cat. Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Nationalgalerie, Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin; Kunsthaus, Zürich, 1988-1989: no. 7. |
| 1989 | Honour, Hugh. The Image of the Black in Western Art. Vol. 4. From the American Revolution to World War I, Part I: Slaves and Liberators. Cambridge, Mass., 1989: 37-41, figs. 6-7. |
| 1989 | Boime, Albert. "Blacks in Shark-Infested Waters; Visual Encodings of Racism in Copley and Homer." Smithsonian Studies in American Art (Winter 1989): 18-47, color repro. fig. 1. |
| 1990 | Facing History: The Black Image in American Art, 1710-1940. Exh. cat. The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; The Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1990: unnumbered. |
| 1990 | Boime, Albert. The Art of Exclusion; Representing Blacks in the Nineteenth Century. Washington, 1990: 20-36, color repro. after xvi. |
| 1992 | Gaehtgens, Thomas W. and Heinz Ickstadt, eds. American Icons, Transatlantic Perspectives on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American Art. Santa Monica, 1992: 35-59, repro. |
| 1992 | Busch, Werner. "Copley, West, and the Tradition of European High Art." In American Icons; Transatlantic Perspectives on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American Art. Edited by Thomas W. Gaehtgens and Heinz Ickstadt. Santa Monica, CA, 1992: 34-59. |
| 1992 | American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 150, repro. |
| 1992 | National Gallery of Art, Washington. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 211, repro. |
| 1993 | Miles, Ellen G. "Copley's Watson and the Shark." Antiques 143, no. 1 (January 1993): 162-171, repro. |
| 1995 | Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. New York, 1995: 946, no. 26-23, repro. (Rev. ed. 1999: 949, Fig. 26-24, repro.) |
| 1995 | John Singleton Copley in England. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1995-1996: no. 4. |
| 1995 | Miles, Ellen G. American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1995: 54-71, color repro. 57. |
| 1999 | Zuffi, Stefano and Francesca Castria, La peinture baroque. Translated from Italian by Silvia Bonucci and Claude Sophie Mazéas. Paris, 1999: 390, color repro. |
| 2000 | Kirsh, Andrea, and Levenson, Rustin S. Seeing Through Paintings: Physical Examination in Art Historical Studies. Physical Examination in Art Historical Studies, vol. 1. New Haven, 2000: 187, 190, fig. 200, 201. |
| 2001 | Southgate, M. Therese. The Art of JAMA II: Covers and Essays from The Journal of the American Medical Association. Chicago, 2001: 122-123, color repro. |
| 2004 | Hand, John Oliver. National Gallery of Art: Master Paintings from the Collection. Washington and New York, 2004: 288-289, no. 233, color repro. |
| 2011 | Roberts, Jennifer L. "Failure to Deliver: Watson and the Shark and the Boston Tea Party." Art History" 10, no. 4 (September 2011): 625, 675-695, color fig. 2, 14. |
| 2012 | Brock, Charles. “George Bellows: An Unfinished Life.” In George Bellows ed. Charles Brock (Exh. cat. Washington 2012). Munich, 2012: 11. |
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