September 8th at Heart's Content, the day of the successful termination of the work of laying, recovering, completing and testing the Atlantic Telegraph Cables of 1865 and 1866
Object type: Drawing
Department: Drawings and Prints
Artist: Robert Charles Dudley
Artist bio: British, 1826–1909
Artist role: Artist
Artist nationality: British
Date: 1866
Medium: Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache (bodycolor)
Dimensions: Sheet: 7 3/8 × 10 15/16 in. (18.8 × 27.8 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Gift of Cyrus W. Field, 1892
Accession year: 1892
Tags: Men|Transatlantic Cable|Crowd