Robert Charles Dudley
Illustration — Landing of the Transatlantic telegraph cable of 1866, Heart's Content, Newfoundland, by Robert Charles Dudley, 1866. Robert Charles Dudley (1826 – 28 April 1909) was a British watercolourist and lithographer.
Robert Charles Dudley

Robert Charles Dudley · Hutchinson's History of the Nations, London, c. 1910. · Public domain
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- 1826. · Hackney.
- Died
- 1909. · London.
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Great Britain.
- Occupation
- painter and printmaker.
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Illustration — Landing of the Transatlantic telegraph cable of 1866, Heart's Content, Newfoundland, by Robert Charles Dudley, 1866. Robert Charles Dudley (1826 – 28 April 1909) was a British watercolourist and lithographer.
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Dudley was born in 1826 and his father was Charles Stokes Dudley, his grandfather was Irish and his grandmother was the Quaker minister Mary Dudley.
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• Robert Charles Dudley, Sciencemuseum • Robert Charles Dudley collection at MET • Robert Charles Dudley at National Portrait Gallery, London

Laying a cable on the Atlantic seabed: the crew of the Great Eastern launching a buoy in an attempt to retrieve a lost cable. Coloured lithograph by E. Walker, 1866, after R.C. Dudley., 1856, by Robert Charles Dudley
Robert Charles Dudley · Wellcome Collection, London · Wellcome Collection

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