Submarine diving suit Size:XL: 100 x 50cm View of the Royal Hospital

View of the Royal Hospital

Found in the collection of the Frick Collection

Riverbank view of Wandsworth

Also including a description in German and French

Submarine diving suit Size:XL: 100 x 50cm View of the Royal HospitalView of a diver, through a section of a proposed diving suit. The diver is shown working on the sea bed, his body encased but his arms protruding through the suit to work with a tool ['the arm ports lined with sticking Plaister' according to the supporting text]. The suit has a glass viewing port and is supplied with air by a tin tube with an outlet near the diver's face and the whole is tethered by a rope. From the manuscript paper 'The submarine, an