Title: The Great Eastern Weighing Anchor Off the Maplin Sands at the Nore, July 15, 1865
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: Image: 8 3/4 × 6 3/16 in. (22.3 × 15.7 cm)
Sheet: 14 1/2 × 10 3/4 in. (36.8 × 27.3 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: Men, term: Working, term: Transatlantic Cable