Robert Charles Dudley

Robert Charles Dudley (1826 – 28 April 1909)^[1] was a British watercolourist and lithographer.^[2]

Landing of the Transatlantic telegraph cable of 1866, Heart's Content, Newfoundland, by Robert Charles Dudley, 1866.

Life

Dudley was born in 1826 and his father was Charles Stokes Dudley,^[2] his grandfather was Irish and his grandmother was the Quaker minister Mary Dudley.^[3]

Links

• Robert Charles Dudley, Sciencemuseum
• Robert Charles Dudley collection at MET
• Robert Charles Dudley at National Portrait Gallery, London

References

1. "History of the Atlantic Cable & Submarine Telegraphy - Robert Dudley".
2. "Robert Dudley: artist, illustrator, and book cover designer". www.victorianweb.org. Retrieved 13 July 2018.
3. "Dudley [née Stokes], Mary (1750–1823), Quaker minister". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/58269. Retrieved 5 November 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

• Dudley, Robert (The Getty Vocabularies)