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c. 1866 · Metropolitan Museum of Art

Making the Splice between the Shore End and the Ocean Cable

Robert Charles DudleyWikidata

painting by Robert Charles Dudley

Wander from here

In the picture

Sea & shipsshipmantransatlantic telegraph cable
Date
c. 1866Wikidata
The Metropolitan Museum of Art: ca. 1866
Medium
Oil on canvasThe Met
Wikidata: Oil paint on canvas
Dimensions
57.8 × 84.5 cmThe Met
Wikidata: 57.8 × 84.5 cm
Collection
Metropolitan Museum of Art, ManhattanWikidata
Materials
oil paint, canvasWikidata
Inventory no.
92.10.47Wikidata
Credit line
Gift of Cyrus W. Field, 1892The Met

Provenance

Where it has been

  1. 1892 –
    Metropolitan Museum of Art
    high confidenceWikidata · collection
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