Manufacturing the transatlantic telegraph cable Size:XL: 120 x 80cm Charity sweeps aside the unfeeling

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

probably an allegorical figure representing France

King and Co

The trader has painted his barrow like a Palermitan cart

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

Manufacturing the transatlantic telegraph cable Size:XL: 120 x 80cm Charity sweeps aside the unfeelingManufacturing 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.