The Laying of the Atlantic Cable at Foilhommerum Bay, Ireland, 1865

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Medium

pen and black ink and brush and gray wash with white gouache over graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

overall: 23 x 32.1 cm (9 1/16 x 12 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Anonymous Gift

Accession Number

1988.37.1

Artists / Makers

British 19th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Inscription

at top of image in graphite: (fine sky with light clouds) (make cable as _thin_ as possible to shew); around edges of image in graphite: about 6 in each boat; all pencil works / thus [not deciphered] figures; (Telegraph house, black corrugated iron, but part of roof _white_); (wooden shed, with flags) (tent); see back; farmhouse & town; Telegraph house / lies in a little hollow at / back of cliff; X; on verso in graphite: (make them throwing cable over if you like, I only shew / how they were) / (figures at top of cliff / pulling up cable) 1686; Knight of Kerry, white hair / blue coat, & / felt hat / (figures half in water pulling bottom part of cable) / Sir R Peel / brown suit / & felt hat; Mr [not deciphered] / light suit / with straw hat; Rocks dark brown, not _black_ as [not deciphered] says, with / rusty green tops. / Sky line to _recede_, / with a soft line, not as I have it, with / strong pencil marks.