The 'Great Eastern' recovering the lost Atlantic cable Size:XL: 120 x 80cm Old couple dozing in the

Old couple dozing in the sun at Serpentine Lido

whilst Britannia urges him to look up from his book at the fighting in the Bulgaria

1430 (1864)

'A Studio Idyll: the Artist's Wife and their Daughter Suzanne'

Royal College of Surgeons

The 'Great Eastern' recovering the lost Atlantic cable Size:XL: 120 x 80cm Old couple dozing in theThe 'Great Eastern' recovering the lost Atlantic cable, 1866, (c1920). An attempt in 1865 by Brunel's giant steamship, the 'Great Eastern' to lay the cable ended in failure when the cable snapped and the end was lost. The following year the 'Great Eastern' succeeded in retrieving the lost cable and completing it, connecting Valentia in Ireland to Trinity Bay, Newfoundland. Instead of the length of a sea voyage, communication time between the two sides