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Robert Charles Dudley

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
Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache (bodycolor)
16.3 × 24.6 cm (6.4 × 9.7 in)

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