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Robert Charles Dudley

In the Bows of the Great Eastern: The Cable Broken and Lost, Preparing to Grapple, August 2nd, 1865

1865
Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache (bodycolor)
18.1 × 25.4 cm (7.1 × 10 in)

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