Title

'Telegraphs', 1871.Artist: Coide

Caption

'Telegraphs', 1871. A caricature of John Pender (1815-1896), British pioneer of submarine telegraphy. In 1852, Pender became a director of the Atlantic Telegraph Company and in 1864 he formed the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company (Telcon). The following year he was elected Liberal MP for Totnes, Devon, and co-founded the Anglo-American Telegraph Company to lay the new Atlantic cable. In 1869, his British Indian Submarine Telegraph Company laid an all-undersea cable to India, and in 1872 he formed the Eastern Telegraph Company, of which he was chairman until his death. A print fromVanity Fair, 28 October 1871.
The Print Collector collection

Date

1871

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19C56_188

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,2Mb (3,5Mb) / 10,9in x 17,8in / 3283 x 5348 (300dpi)

Keywords

standing people male man men communications politics country guy British color colour Scotland telecommunications location SCOTTISH Victorian century short Britain liberal telecommunication hand on hip pioneer posture politician 19th century MP nineteenth century Scots statesman The Print Collector Liberal party member of parliament submarine telegraphy telegraphy caricature lithograph portrait Sir John Coide JJ Tissot James Jacques Tissot Sir John Pender Pender John Pender lithograph caricature portrait