View, Looking Aft, from the Port Paddle Box of the Great Eastern, Showing the Trough for the Cable, etc.
1865–66
Medium
Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache (bodycolor)
Dimensions
Sheet: 15 1/8 x 21 1/2 in. (38.4 x 54.6 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Cyrus W. Field, 1892
Accession Number
92.10.65
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step aboard the colossal *Great Eastern*, the engineering marvel of the 19th century, through Robert Charles Dudley's precise 1865–66 watercolor *View, Looking Aft from the Port Paddle Box the Great Eastern, Showing Trough for the Cable etc.* Perched at the port paddle box, this intimate vantage reveals the ship's cable trough and bustling deck activity, capturing the raw mechanics of maritime innovation amid men at work. Dudley, an artist who chronicled these historic voyages, renders the scene with meticulous detail on a grand 15⅛ × 21½-inch sheet. Created during the *Great Eastern*'s pivot...
About the Artist
Robert Charles Dudley · 1813–1913
British, 1826–1909