Manufacturing the transatlantic telegraph cable Size:XL: 120 x 80cm With a description in French

With a description in French beneath

probably an allegorical figure representing France

The child's death has been caused by cold

Charity sweeps aside the unfeeling Beadle in her determination to relieve the terrible suffering of a poor family

Manufacturing the transatlantic telegraph cable Size:XL: 120 x 80cm With a description in FrenchManufacturing 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.