View, Looking Aft, from the Port Paddle Box of the Great Eastern, Showing the Trough for the Cable, etc. — Robert Charles Dudley. View, Looking Aft, from the Port Paddle Box of the Great Eastern, Showing the Trough for the Cable, etc., 1865–66. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public domain (CC0).

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View, Looking Aft, from the Port Paddle Box of the Great Eastern, Showing the Trough for the Cable, etc.

by Robert Charles Dudley

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Artist: Robert Charles Dudley (British, 1826–1909)
Date: 1865–66
Medium: Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache (bodycolor)
Dimensions: Sheet: 15 1/8 x 21 1/2 in. (38.4 x 54.6 cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Gift of Cyrus W. Field, 1892
Accession no.: 92.10.65

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