Images Filters Artist Artist... Robert Charles Dudley (64) Unknown Artist (1) Collection Collection... The Metropolitan Museum of Art (44) Science Museum (11) Royal Collection Trust (6) Library and Archives Canada (3) Wellcome Library (1) Country Country... Canada (15) Republic of Ireland (12) England (10) Continent Continent... Seas & Oceans (28) Europe (22) North America (15) Medium Medium... Watercolour (45) Print (6) Category Category... Industries & Professions (23) People & Society (15) Travel & Transport (12) Landscapes & Seascapes (11) Buildings & Architecture (4) Date Date... 1860s (65) 65 matching results. See slideshow Sort orderRelevanceOldest additions firstNewest additions firstOldest painted firstNewest painted first See results on a map View map Laying the line (1866) + Add to album Transmitting (1866) + Add to album The Telegraph Station in Heart's Content Bay (1866) + Add to album The Foul Flake, night of July 17 (1866) + Add to album Making joint to Shore End (1866) + Add to album Watching manoeuvres from the dunes (1865) + Add to album Chairing Canning at Heart's Content (1866) + Add to album Telegraph house, Newfoundland: telegraph workers smoking and reading papers in their mess. (1866) + Add to album Landing of the Atlantic Cable of 1866 at Heart's Content, Newfoundland. (1866) + Add to album Princess Alexandra's arrival procession passing Temple Bar (7th March 1863) + Add to album View, Looking Aft, from the Port Paddle Box of the Great Eastern, Showing the Trough for the Cable, etc. (1865-1866) + Add to album Heart's Content Bay, Newfoundland, seen from the deck of the Great Eastern. (August 1866) + Add to album Getting Out One of the Large Buoys for Launching, August 2nd, 1865 (2nd August 1865) + Add to album Print, 'Large Buoy' scene on 'Great Eastern' during the laying of the first Atlantic cable, 1865-1867 (1865-1867) + Add to album Print, 'Searching Fault' scene on 'Great Eastern' during the laying of the first Atlantic cable, 1865-1867 (1865-1867) + Add to album Print, 'Launching Buoy' scene on "Great Eastern" during the laying of the first Atlantic cable, 1865-1867 (1865-1867) + Add to album The Picking-up Machinery in the Bows of the Great Eastern (1865-1866) + Add to album The Settlement and Church of Heart's Content, Newfoundland (1866) + Add to album Deck of the Great Eastern, the Cable Trough, etc., 1866 (1865-1866) + Add to album Print, 'Interior Tanks', a scene on 'Great Eastern' during the laying of the first Atlantic cable, 1865-1867 (1865-1867) + Add to album Arrival of Princess Alexandra: St. Paul's Cathedral (1863) + Add to album Arrival in Trinity Bay, Newfoundland: The Cable Passed to the Paddle-box Boat of the Terrible, etc. (1866) + Add to album View of the Interior of One of the Tanks on Board the Great Eastern (1865-1866) + Add to album News Received Through the Atlantic Cable From All Parts of the World, etc. (1866) + Add to album The Paying-out Machinery in the Stern of the Great Eastern (1865) + Add to album Valentia, Ireland, from the Harbor, Opposite Knight's-town, at the Period of Laying the Cable of 1857 (1865-1866) + Add to album Getting Out One of the Great Buoys: The Deck of the Great Eastern Looking From the Forecastle (1865-1866) + Add to album View Looking Aft from the Port Paddle-box on the Deck of the Great Eastern: Showing the Trough for the Cable, etc. (1865-1866) + Add to album Arrival of Princess Alexandra: Waterloo Place and Pall Mall (1863) + Add to album Princess Alexandra's Arrival Procession passing the Mansion House (7th March 1863) + Add to album The Cliffs, Foilhummerum Bay, Valentia, the Point at Which the Shore-end of the Cable was Landed on July 22nd, 1865 (1865) + Add to album Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Exterior View of the Telegraph House in 1857-1858 (1865-1866) + Add to album Deck of Great Eastern, Aft: the Paying-out Machinery (1866) + Add to album In the Bows of the Great Eastern: The Cable Broken and Lost, Preparing to Grapple, August 2nd, 1865 (1865) + Add to album Erecting the land line for the Trans Atlantic Cable. (1866) + Add to album Forward Deck of the Great Eastern Cleared for the First Attempt to Grapple for the Lost Cable, August 11th, 1865 (11th August 1865) + Add to album Launching the Buoy from the Bow of the Great Eastern on August 8th, 1865 (1865-1866) + Add to album Foilhummerum Bay, Valentia, Looking Seawards from the Point at Which the Cable Reaches the Shore of Ireland (1865-1866) + Add to album Splicing the Cable (after the First Accident) on Board the Great Eastern, July 25th, 1865 (1865-1866) + Add to album Foilhummerum Bay, Valentia, from Cromwell Fort: The Caroline Laying the Earthwire on July 21st, 1865 (1865) + Add to album Telegraph House, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland: Interior View of the Mess Room, 1858 (1865-1866) + Add to album The Heights over Foilhummerum Bay, Valentia, the William Corey Heading Seawards, Laying the Shore-end of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable, July 7th, 1866 (1865-1866) + Add to album A Night Scene. The Cable Entangled and Nearly Broken, July 18th, 1866 (1865-1866) + Add to album First Telegraph House at Heart's Content, Newfoundland, 1866 (1866) + Add to album Telegraph Cable Fleet at Sea, 1865 (1865-1866) + Add to album The Great Eastern Under Weigh, July 23rd, 1865: Escort and other Ships, H.M.S. Terrible, H.M.S. Sphinx, The Hawk and Revised: The Caroline (1865-1866) + Add to album The Cable Fleet Leaving Ireland, July 1858 (1865-1866) + Add to album Interior of One of the Tanks on Board the Great Eastern: The Cable Passing Out (1865-1866) + Add to album Searching for the Fault after Hauling Back the Cable from the Bottom of the Atlantic, July 31st, 1865 (1865) + Add to album The Old Frigate Iris with Her Freight of Cable Alongside the Great Eastern at Sheerness: The Cable Passed from the Hulk to the Great Eastern (1865) + Add to album The Forge on Deck, Night of August 9th: Preparing the Iron Plating for Capstan (1865-1866) + Add to album Foilhummerum Bay, Valentia, Looking from Cromwell Fort: The Caroline and Boats Laying the Earth Wire, July 21st, 1865 (1865-1866) + Add to album The Reels of Gutta-percha Covered Conducting Wire Conveyed into Tanks at the Works of the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company, at Greenwich (1865-1866) + Add to album The Atlantic Telegraph Cable Fleet Assembled at Berehaven (Southwest Coast of Ireland): Ships, the Great Eastern, H.M.S. Terrible, the Alby, the Medway and the William Cory (1866) + Add to album H.M.S. Agamemnon Laying the Atlantic Telegraph Cable in 1858: a Whale Crosses the Line (1865-1866) + Add to album Coiling the Cable in the Large Tanks at the Works of the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company of Greenwich, 1865 (1865) + Add to album Valentia in 1857-1858 at the Time of the Laying of the Former Cable (1865) + Add to album The Albany Buoying a Bight of the Cable of 1865 on the Night of August 26th, 1866 (1866) + Add to album Arrival of Princess Alexandra from Denmark for her Marriage to the Prince of Wales, 1863: the Princess passing the lines of Volunteers in Hyde Park (c.1863) + Add to album The Cable Passed From the Works into the Hulk (the Old Frigate Iris) Lying in the Thames at Greenwich (1865-1866) + Add to album 12Next Last Laying the line (1866) Courtesy of the Science Museum | CC BY-NC-SA Transmitting (1866) Courtesy of the Science Museum | CC BY-NC-SA The Telegraph Station in Heart's Content Bay (1866) Courtesy of the Science Museum | CC BY-NC-SA The Foul Flake, night of July 17 (1866) Courtesy of the Science Museum | CC BY-NC-SA Making joint to Shore End (1866) Courtesy of the Science Museum | CC BY-NC-SA Watching manoeuvres from the dunes (1865) Courtesy of the Science Museum | CC BY-NC-SA Chairing Canning at Heart's Content (1866) Courtesy of the Science Museum | CC BY-NC-SA Telegraph house, Newfoundland: telegraph workers smoking and reading papers in their mess. (1866) image courtesy of Wellcome Library, London | CC BY 4.0 Landing of the Atlantic Cable of 1866 at Heart's Content, Newfoundland. (1866) Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. R9266-175 Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana | Copyright Expired Princess Alexandra's arrival procession passing Temple Bar (7th March 1863) Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2018 | All Rights Reserved View, Looking Aft, from the Port Paddle Box of the Great Eastern, Showing the Trough for the Cable, etc. (1865-1866) image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art | CC0 1.0 Heart's Content Bay, Newfoundland, seen from the deck of the Great Eastern. (August 1866) Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. R9266-176 Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana | Copyright Expired Getting Out One of the Large Buoys for Launching, August 2nd, 1865 (2nd August 1865) image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art | CC0 1.0 Print, 'Large Buoy' scene on 'Great Eastern' during the laying of the first Atlantic cable, 1865-1867 (1865-1867) Courtesy of the Science Museum | CC BY-NC-SA Print, 'Searching Fault' scene on 'Great Eastern' during the laying of the first Atlantic cable, 1865-1867 (1865-1867) Courtesy of the Science Museum | CC BY-NC-SA Print, 'Launching Buoy' scene on "Great Eastern" during the laying of the first Atlantic cable, 1865-1867 (1865-1867) Courtesy of the Science Museum | CC BY-NC-SA The Picking-up Machinery in the Bows of the Great Eastern (1865-1866) image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art | CC0 1.0 The Settlement and Church of Heart's Content, Newfoundland (1866) image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art | CC0 1.0 Deck of the Great Eastern, the Cable Trough, etc., 1866 (1865-1866) Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts | CC0 1.0 Print, 'Interior Tanks', a scene on 'Great Eastern' during the laying of the first Atlantic cable, 1865-1867 (1865-1867) Courtesy of the Science Museum | CC BY-NC-SA Arrival of Princess Alexandra: St. Paul's Cathedral (1863) Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2018 | All Rights Reserved Arrival in Trinity Bay, Newfoundland: The Cable Passed to the Paddle-box Boat of the Terrible, etc. (1866) Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts | CC0 1.0 View of the Interior of One of the Tanks on Board the Great Eastern (1865-1866) Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts | CC0 1.0 News Received Through the Atlantic Cable From All Parts of the World, etc. (1866) Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts | CC0 1.0 The Paying-out Machinery in the Stern of the Great Eastern (1865) Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts | CC0 1.0 Valentia, Ireland, from the Harbor, Opposite Knight's-town, at the Period of Laying the Cable of 1857 (1865-1866) Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts | CC0 1.0 Getting Out One of the Great Buoys: The Deck of the Great Eastern Looking From the Forecastle (1865-1866) Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts | CC0 1.0 View Looking Aft from the Port Paddle-box on the Deck of the Great Eastern: Showing the Trough for the Cable, etc. (1865-1866) image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art | CC0 1.0 Arrival of Princess Alexandra: Waterloo Place and Pall Mall (1863) Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2018 | All Rights Reserved Princess Alexandra's Arrival Procession passing the Mansion House (7th March 1863) Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2018 | All Rights Reserved The Cliffs, Foilhummerum Bay, Valentia, the Point at Which the Shore-end of the Cable was Landed on July 22nd, 1865 (1865) Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts | CC0 1.0 Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Exterior View of the Telegraph House in 1857-1858 (1865-1866) Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts | CC0 1.0 Deck of Great Eastern, Aft: the Paying-out Machinery (1866) Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts | CC0 1.0 In the Bows of the Great Eastern: The Cable Broken and Lost, Preparing to Grapple, August 2nd, 1865 (1865) Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts | CC0 1.0 Erecting the land line for the Trans Atlantic Cable. (1866) Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. R9266-177 Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana | Copyright Expired Forward Deck of the Great Eastern Cleared for the First Attempt to Grapple for the Lost Cable, August 11th, 1865 (11th August 1865) image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art | CC0 1.0 Launching the Buoy from the Bow of the Great Eastern on August 8th, 1865 (1865-1866) Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts | CC0 1.0 Foilhummerum Bay, Valentia, Looking Seawards from the Point at Which the Cable Reaches the Shore of Ireland (1865-1866) Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts | CC0 1.0 Splicing the Cable (after the First Accident) on Board the Great Eastern, July 25th, 1865 (1865-1866) Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts | CC0 1.0 Foilhummerum Bay, Valentia, from Cromwell Fort: The Caroline Laying the Earthwire on July 21st, 1865 (1865) image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art | CC0 1.0 Telegraph House, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland: Interior View of the Mess Room, 1858 (1865-1866) Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts | CC0 1.0 The Heights over Foilhummerum Bay, Valentia, the William Corey Heading Seawards, Laying the Shore-end of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable, July 7th, 1866 (1865-1866) Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts | CC0 1.0 A Night Scene. The Cable Entangled and Nearly Broken, July 18th, 1866 (1865-1866) Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts | CC0 1.0 First Telegraph House at Heart's Content, Newfoundland, 1866 (1866) Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts | CC0 1.0 Telegraph Cable Fleet at Sea, 1865 (1865-1866) Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts | CC0 1.0 The Great Eastern Under Weigh, July 23rd, 1865: Escort and other Ships, H.M.S. Terrible, H.M.S. Sphinx, The Hawk and Revised: The Caroline (1865-1866) Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts | CC0 1.0 The Cable Fleet Leaving Ireland, July 1858 (1865-1866) Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts | CC0 1.0 Interior of One of the Tanks on Board the Great Eastern: The Cable Passing Out (1865-1866) Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts | CC0 1.0 Searching for the Fault after Hauling Back the Cable from the Bottom of the Atlantic, July 31st, 1865 (1865) Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts | CC0 1.0 The Old Frigate Iris with Her Freight of Cable Alongside the Great Eastern at Sheerness: The Cable Passed from the Hulk to the Great Eastern (1865) Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts | CC0 1.0 The Forge on Deck, Night of August 9th: Preparing the Iron Plating for Capstan (1865-1866) Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts | CC0 1.0 Foilhummerum Bay, Valentia, Looking from Cromwell Fort: The Caroline and Boats Laying the Earth Wire, July 21st, 1865 (1865-1866) Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts | CC0 1.0 The Reels of Gutta-percha Covered Conducting Wire Conveyed into Tanks at the Works of the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company, at Greenwich (1865-1866) image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art | CC0 1.0 The Atlantic Telegraph Cable Fleet Assembled at Berehaven (Southwest Coast of Ireland): Ships, the Great Eastern, H.M.S. Terrible, the Alby, the Medway and the William Cory (1866) Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts | CC0 1.0 H.M.S. Agamemnon Laying the Atlantic Telegraph Cable in 1858: a Whale Crosses the Line (1865-1866) Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts | CC0 1.0 Coiling the Cable in the Large Tanks at the Works of the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company of Greenwich, 1865 (1865) Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts | CC0 1.0 Valentia in 1857-1858 at the Time of the Laying of the Former Cable (1865) Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts | CC0 1.0 The Albany Buoying a Bight of the Cable of 1865 on the Night of August 26th, 1866 (1866) Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts | CC0 1.0 Arrival of Princess Alexandra from Denmark for her Marriage to the Prince of Wales, 1863: the Princess passing the lines of Volunteers in Hyde Park (c.1863) Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2018 | All Rights Reserved The Cable Passed From the Works into the Hulk (the Old Frigate Iris) Lying in the Thames at Greenwich (1865-1866) Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts | CC0 1.0