The Atlantic Telegraph

A two-storey wooden house with a pitched roof sits on a snow-covered slope, framed by tall spruce trees and a leaning telegraph pole in the foreground. Two figures and a dog walk through the snow near the lower right, under a pale, cloudy sky. The colour lithograph uses soft, cool tones to convey the isolation and cold of a northern winter.

Look closer: A dog sits in the snow near the telegraph pole's base.

Artist

Sir William Howard Russell

Date

[1866]

Medium

Illustrations: color lithographs

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

3305 × 2535 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1961