Title: Coiling the Cable in the After-tank on Board the Great Eastern at Sheerness: Visit of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales on May 23rd, 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: Sheet: 6 11/16 in. × 10 in. (17 × 25.4 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: Industry, term: Transatlantic Cable