Title: The Albany Buoying a Bight of the Cable of 1865 on the Night of August 26th, 1866
Object type: Drawing
Date: 1866
Artist:  Robert Charles Dudley 
Artist bio: British, 1826–1909
Artist nationality: British
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Watercolor with touches of gouache (bodycolor)
Dimensions: Sheet: 8 1/8 x 12 13/16 in. (20.6 x 32.5 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: Night, term: Ships, term: Transatlantic Cable