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File:Watsonandtheshark-original.jpg

Summary

Artist
Title Watson and the Shark
Date 1778
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 182.1 × 229.7 cm (71.7 × 90.4 in)
Gallery 60 B
Accession number 1963.6.1
Credit line Ferdinand Lammot Belin Fund
References National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Source/Photographer http://www.nga.gov/feature/watson/

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