Virginia Ratifies the Constitution, June 25, 1788.
Based on the famous 1788 painting, Watson and the Sharks, by John Singleton Copley,
this allegory of the Virginia ratification struggle by Kinuko Craft shows the Federalists
and Anti-Federalists—James Madison, Patrick Henry, George Mason, Edmund Randolph, James Monroe—perceiving different dangers.
Painted originally for the Virginia Commission on the Bicentennial of the United
States Constitution. (Courtesy of A. E. Dick Howard.)