Title: Getting Out One of the Great Buoys: The Deck of the Great Eastern Looking From the Forecastle
Object type: Drawing
Date: 1865–66
Artist:  Robert Charles Dudley 
Artist bio: British, 1826–1909
Artist nationality: British
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache (bodycolor)
Dimensions: Sheet: 9 13/16 × 14 7/16 in. (25 × 36.7 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Gift of Cyrus W. Field, 1892
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Ships, term: Transatlantic Cable