Paintings, Prints & Drawings — 1851-1860
Laying down the wires of the Electric Telegraph in the City
Men dig the street with pickaxes with a large reel of cable nearby. Carriages pass in the background. Brazier on the left. The first electric cable was laid in July 1848 and improvements were made throughout the 1850s. Landells (1833-77) was war correspondent for the ILN covering the Crimean, Prusso-Danish and Franco-Prussian wars.
- Category:
- Paintings, Prints & Drawings
- Object ID:
- 72.160/7
- Object name:
- Laying down the wires of the Electric Telegraph in the City
- Object type:
- Artist/Maker:
- Landells, Robert Thomas
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- Production date:
- 1851-1860
- Material:
paper, pencil, ink
- Measurements/duration:
- H 120 mm, W 168 mm (paper)
- Part of:
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- On display:
- —
- Record quality:
- 60%
- Part of this object:
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- Owner Status & Credit:
Permanent collection
- Copyright holder:
digital image © London Museum
- Image credit:
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- Creative commons usage:
- CC BY-NC 4.0
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