The Cliffs Foilhummerum Bay, Point of the Landing of the Shore End of Cable

Location

Country: Ireland
City: Dublin
Place: British Embassy

Illustrator Robert Dudley worked for ‘The London Illustrated News’ from 1858. He was sent to Newfoundland aboard the Great Eastern by the newspaper to record the landing of the Atlantic Cable. In 1867 he published a collection of 25 lithographs, based on watercolours he made during the trip. These were used as illustrations to the publication ‘The Atlantic Telegraph’. Dudley also exhibited one watercolour of this subject at the Royal Society of British Artists in 1866. In addition to his illustrations, Bartlett was well-known for his designs for decorative book covers, many of which include his signature. He lived and worked in Kensington from 1865 to 1875 and in Notting Hill from 1875 until his death in 1893.
Landscape lithographer and painter Thomas Picken was the younger brother of draughtsman and lithographer Andrew (1815-1845). The brothers were two of four sons of novelist Andrew Picken (1788-1833) and his wife Janet Coxon (1792-1871). Thomas made lithographs for David Roberts's ‘The Holy Land’ (1842-49), William Payne's ‘The Lake Scenery of England’ (1859), John Parker Lawson's ‘Scotland Delineated’ (1847-54) and other works. He exhibited one painting at the Royal Academy in 1857 and ten at the Society of Artists, Suffolk Street (1846-75). Although generally thought to have emigrated to Australia in 1870, a 2004 entry in the ‘Oxford Dictionary of National Biography’ reports that he was an inmate of the Charterhouse, London, from 1879.

Places

Atlantic Ocean, Ireland, Valentia Island, Foilhummerum Bay, County Kerry

Subjects

rowing boat, topography, seascape/coastal scene, stone/rock, bay, shore, Irish, boy, man, woman, girl, path

Materials & Techniques

lithograph, colour lithograph

Artist

Robert Dudley ( - c.1893)
Thomas Picken (1815 - 1870)

Title

The Cliffs Foilhummerum Bay, Point of the Landing of the Shore End of Cable

Date

1865

Medium

Colour lithograph

Acquisition

Purchased from Parker Gallery, June 1960

GAC number

5131