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Robert Charles Dudley

Coiling the Cable in the Large Tanks at the Works of the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company of Greenwich, 1865

1865
Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache (bodycolor)
18.2 × 26.6 cm (7.2 × 10.5 in)

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