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Robert Charles Dudley

The Cable Passed From the Works into the Hulk (the Old Frigate Iris) Lying in the Thames at Greenwich

1865–66
Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache (bodycolor)
16.4 × 25.5 cm (6.5 × 10 in)

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