Object Details
- depicted
- Field, Cyrus W.
- Kimmel and Forster
- Description (Brief)
- Black and white print with minimal hand-coloring. Commemorates the laying of the Transatlantic Cable. Central scene depicting the ocean with the cable stretching from America to Europe. Four corner vignettes and center portrait of Cyrus Field.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
- 1866
- ID Number
- DL.60.2403
- catalog number
- 60.2403
- accession number
- 228146
- Object Name
- lithograph
- Object Type
- Lithograph
- Physical Description
- ink (overall material)
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- image: 12 in x 16 in; 30.48 cm x 40.64 cm
- place made
- United States: New York, New York City
- Related Publication
- Peters, Harry T.. America on Stone
- Garvan, Anthony N. B. and Peter C. Welsh. Victorian American
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Art
- Peters Prints
- Domestic Furnishings
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Chronology: 1860-1869
- Transatlantic Cable
- Diplomacy
- U.S. National Government, executive branch
- Communication, telegraph
- Patriotism and Patriotic Symbols
- related event
- Laying of Transatlantic Cable
- Record ID
- nmah_335385
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a1-31fd-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
