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When the sun goes down

Despite the country’s colonial and industrial dominion, the finest minds of Victorian Britain began to fear the devastating effects of declining natural resources. Even the death of the sun.

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  • Possession Bay in South Georgia, southern Atlantic Ocean. Engraving by S. Smith, 1777, after W. Hodges, 1775.
  • Geography: a water spout in the South Atlantic Ocean. Coloured lithograph by A. Aglio, 1824, after P. Schmidtmeyer.
  • North and Central America and the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans: map. Engraving, ca. 1777.
  • Laying a cable on the Atlantic seabed: the crew of the Great Eastern launching a buoy in an attempt to retrieve a lost cable. Coloured lithograph by E. Walker, 1866, after R.C. Dudley.
  • Christopher Columbus, on his ship, admonishes his men for their lack of courage. Coloured lithograph, ca. 1850.
  • Venus as a black woman slave travelling on a shell across the Atlantic from Angola to the West Indies. Engraving by W. Grainger, 1794, after T. Stothard.
  • Slave ships on the ocean. Wood engraving by Smyth, 1858.
  • Geology: a large iceberg in Baffin Bay. Aquatint by W. Westall after Beechey.
  • Meteorology: the sun in Baffin Bay disperses thick fog in the shape of a semicircle. Coloured etching by P. Fumagalli, 1827, after B. O'Reilly.
  • Telegraph house, Newfoundland: telegraph workers smoking and reading papers in their mess. Coloured lithograph by G.M. McCulloch, 1866, after R.C. Dudley, 1858.
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