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The Old Frigate Iris with Her Freight of Cable Alongside the Great Eastern at Sheerness: The Cable Passed from the Hulk to the Great Eastern

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Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache (bodycolor)
Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Gift of Cyrus W. Field 1892
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Title: The Old Frigate Iris with Her Freight of Cable Alongside the Great Eastern at Sheerness: The Cable Passed from the Hulk to the Great Eastern
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Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache (bodycolor).

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