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The Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 41 (2006)
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART JOURNAL | VOLUME 41

"The Laying of the Atlantic Cable: Paintings, Watercolors, and Commemorative Objects Given to the Metropolitan Museum by Cyrus W. Field"

Dobkin, Josephine C.
2006
16 pages
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Josephine C. Dobkin

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Specimen of the Atlantic Cable
1856–65
Valentia, Ireland: From the Harbor, opposite Knight's-town, at the period of laying the Cable of 1857, Robert Charles Dudley British, Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache (bodycolor)
Valentia, Ireland: From the Harbor, opposite Knight's-town, at the period of laying the Cable of 1857
Robert Charles Dudley
1865–66
Medal, Tiffany & Co., Gold, American
Medal
Tiffany & Co.
ca. 1858
Grappling for the Lost Cable, Robert Charles Dudley British, Oil on canvas
Grappling for the Lost Cable
Robert Charles Dudley
ca. 1866
In the Bows of the Great Eastern: The Cable Broken and Lost, Preparing to Grapple, August 2nd, 1865, Robert Charles Dudley British, Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache (bodycolor)
In the Bows of the Great Eastern: The Cable Broken and Lost, Preparing to Grapple, August 2nd, 1865
Robert Charles Dudley
1865
Trinity Bay, Newfoundland: Exterior View of the Telegraph House in 1857–58, Robert Charles Dudley British, Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache (bodycolor)
Trinity Bay, Newfoundland: Exterior View of the Telegraph House in 1857–58
Robert Charles Dudley
1865–66
The Great Eastern Weighing Anchor Off the Maplin Sands at the Nore, July 15, 1865, Robert Charles Dudley British, Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache (bodycolor)
The Great Eastern Weighing Anchor Off the Maplin Sands at the Nore, July 15, 1865
Robert Charles Dudley
1865–66
View of the Interior of One of the Tanks on Board the Great Eastern, Robert Charles Dudley British, Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache (bodycolor)
View of the Interior of One of the Tanks on Board the Great Eastern
Robert Charles Dudley
1865–66
View Looking Aft from the Port Paddle-box on the Deck of the Great Eastern: Showing the Trough for the Cable, etc., Robert Charles Dudley British, Watercolor with touches of gouache (bodycolor)
View Looking Aft from the Port Paddle-box on the Deck of the Great Eastern: Showing the Trough for the Cable, etc.
Robert Charles Dudley
1865–66
Getting Out One of the Great Buoys: The Deck of the Great Eastern Looking From the Forecastle, Robert Charles Dudley British, Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache (bodycolor)
Getting Out One of the Great Buoys: The Deck of the Great Eastern Looking From the Forecastle
Robert Charles Dudley
1865–66
The Atlantic Telegraph Cable Fleet Assembled at Berehaven (Southwest Coast of Ireland): Ships, the Great Eastern, H.M.S. Terrible, the Alby, the Medway and the William Cory, Robert Charles Dudley British, Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache (bodycolor)
The Atlantic Telegraph Cable Fleet Assembled at Berehaven (Southwest Coast of Ireland): Ships, the Great Eastern, H.M.S. Terrible, the Alby, the Medway and the William Cory
Robert Charles Dudley
1866
News Received Through the Atlantic Cable From All Parts of the World, etc., Robert Charles Dudley British, Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache (bodycolor)
News Received Through the Atlantic Cable From All Parts of the World, etc.
Robert Charles Dudley
1866
First Telegraph House at Heart's Content, Newfoundland, 1866, Robert Charles Dudley British, Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache (bodycolor)
First Telegraph House at Heart's Content, Newfoundland, 1866
Robert Charles Dudley
1866
Box, Tiffany & Co., Gold, American
Box
Tiffany & Co.
1859
Specimen of the Atlantic Cable, Metal
Specimen of the Atlantic Cable
1856–65
Specimen of the Atlantic Cable, Metal
Specimen of the Atlantic Cable
1856–65
To C.W. Field, and his Telegraph Companies, Universal Exhibition, Paris, 1867, François-Joseph-Hubert Ponscarme French, Gold, French
To C.W. Field, and his Telegraph Companies, Universal Exhibition, Paris, 1867
François-Joseph-Hubert Ponscarme
1867
Length of Atlantic Cable, Tiffany & Co., Steel and brass, American
Length of Atlantic Cable
Tiffany & Co.
ca. 1858

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