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Chairing Canning at Heart's Content

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Date

1866

Artist

Robert Charles Dudley (1826-1909)

Collection

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https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co66370/chairing-canning-at-hearts-content-watercolour-drawing

Description

Watercolour drawing, 'Chairing Canning at Heart's Content' / Robert Dudley, painted on the 1866 Atlantic Telegraph Cable-laying expedition
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CC BY-NC-SA

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Courtesy of the Science Museum

Location

Heart's Content, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

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Category

People & Society

TWW Comment

Samuel Canning, chief engineer at the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company, was responsible for making and laying the transatlantic telegraph cables of 1865 and 1866.

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