[Isambard Kingdom Brunel Standing Before the Launching Chains of the Great Eastern]

Quick Overview

Artist: Robert Howlett (British, 1831–1858)
Date: 1857, printed 1863–64
Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions: Image: 27.9 x 21.5 cm (11 x 8 7/16 in.) Mount: 36.4 x 26.6 cm (14 5/16 x 10 1/2 in.)
Type: Photograph
Classification: Photographs
Department: Photographs
Credit line: Gilman Collection, Purchase, Harriette and Noel Levine Gift, 2005
Accession no.: 2005.100.11

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Deck Scene of the Great Eastern
Robert Howlett
1857 · Photograph
Museum collection · via the Cleveland Museum of ArtAT-00012992
In the Valley of the Mole
Robert Howlett
1855 · Photograph
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00025056
[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

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