The Old Frigate Iris with Her Freight of Cable Alongside the Great Eastern at Sheerness: The Cable Passed from the Hulk to the Great Eastern — Robert Charles Dudley. The Old Frigate Iris with Her Freight of Cable Alongside the Great Eastern at Sheerness: The Cable Passed from the Hulk to the Great Eastern, 1865. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public domain (CC0).

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The Old Frigate Iris with Her Freight of Cable Alongside the Great Eastern at Sheerness: The Cable Passed from the Hulk to the Great Eastern

by Robert Charles Dudley

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Artist: Robert Charles Dudley (British, 1826–1909)
Date: 1865
Medium: Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache (bodycolor)
Dimensions: Sheet: 6 7/16 × 9 11/16 in. (16.3 × 24.6 cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Gift of Cyrus W. Field, 1892
Accession no.: 92.10.55

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