Title: The Paying-out Machinery in the Stern of the Great Eastern
Object type: Drawing
Date: 1865
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: 6 3/4 × 10 1/2 in. (17.2 × 26.7 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: Industry, term: Ships, term: Transatlantic Cable