Manufacturing the transatlantic telegraph cable Size:XL: 120 x 80cm The trader has painted his

The trader has painted his barrow like a Palermitan cart

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With a street scene including a boy playing with a hoop and a dog

A labourer faces the court to make a complaint against the constable standing next to him

Manufacturing the transatlantic telegraph cable Size:XL: 120 x 80cm The trader has painted hisManufacturing the transatlantic telegraph cable, c1865 (1866). Coiling the telegraph cable in the tanks at the works in Greenwich. The cable, connecting Valentia island, off the Irish coast, and Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, was successfully laid in the summer of 1866 by Brunel's steamship, the 'Great Eastern'. From The Atlantic Telegraph by William Howard Russell, published 1866.