Title: Splicing the Cable (after the First Accident) on Board the Great Eastern, July 25th, 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 7/8 × 10 7/16 in. (17.5 × 26.5 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: Cannons, term: Men, term: Working, term: Transatlantic Cable