In the Valley of the Mole

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Artist: Robert Howlett (British, 1831–1858)
Date: 1855
Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions: Image: 20.4 x 25.5 cm (8 1/16 x 10 1/16 in.) Mount: 30.5 x 43.7 cm (12 x 17 3/16 in.)
Type: Photograph
Classification: Photographs
Department: Photographs
Credit line: Purchase, Harrison D. Horblit and Harriette and Noel Levine Gifts and David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1988
Accession no.: 1988.1033

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Deck Scene of the Great Eastern
Robert Howlett
1857 · Photograph
Museum collection · via the Cleveland Museum of ArtAT-00012992
[Isambard Kingdom Brunel Standing Before the Launching Chains of the Great Eastern]
Robert Howlett
1857, printed 1863–64 · Photograph
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00025493
[Aphrodita Under Construction]
Robert Howlett
ca. 1857 · Photograph
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00025623
[Men at Work Beside the Launching Chains of the "Great Eastern"]
Robert Howlett
November 18, 1857 · Photograph
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00025709

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.