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A Night Scene. The Cable Entangled and Nearly Broken, July 18th, 1866

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Drawings and Prints

A Night Scene. The Cable Entangled and Nearly Broken, July 18th, 1866

Robert Charles Dudley

Date
1865–66
Medium
Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache (bodycolor)
Dimensions
Sheet: 8 x 10 1/4 in. (20.3 x 26 cm)
Object type
Drawing
Classification
Drawings
Object number
92.10.77
Credit line
Gift of Cyrus W. Field, 1892
Original Met record Artist authority

Artist information

British, 1826–1909

Subjects and terms

  • Men
  • Transatlantic Cable
  • Night
  • Working
  • Ships

The Met object ID 364362. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.