Foilhummerum Bay, Valentia, Looking Seawards from the Point at Which the Cable Reaches the Shore of Ireland, 1865–66, Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache, Sheet: 6 5/16 × 9 1/4 in. (16 × 23.5 cm), Drawings, Robert Charles Dudley (British, 1826–1909), One of the 19th century's great technological achievements was to lay a telegraphic cable beneath the Atlantic, allowing messages to speed back and forth between North America and Europe in minutes, rather than ten or twelve days by steamer
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Foilhummerum Bay, Valentia, Looking Seawards, Point, Cable Reaches, Shore, Ireland, 1865–66, Watercolor, graphite, touches, gouache, Sheet, 6 5/16, 9 1/4, 16, 23.5 cm, Drawings, Robert Charles Dudley, British, 1826–1909, 19th century, great technological achievements, lay, telegraphic cable, beneath, Atlantic, allowing messages, speed back, forth, North America, Europe, minutes, ten, twelve days, steamer
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