Foilhummerum Bay, Valentia, from Cromwell Fort: The Caroline Laying th

A watercolor view down a rocky, grassy coastline toward a bay, where a steamship with a single funnel rides at anchor on the left. Sheer cliffs fall to dark water in the foreground, and small figures stand along the far clifftop. The record names the bay and the cable-laying voyage, which the ship and the cliffs are consistent with.

Look closer: Tiny figures and horses line the distant clifftop on the right side of the skyline.

Artist

Robert Charles Dudley

Date

1865

Medium

Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache (bodycolor)

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

3409 × 2296 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Cyrus W. Field, 1892