Sujet

Ferdinand de Lesseps, 19th century French diplomat and entrepreneur, (1900). Artist: Unknown

Légende

Ferdinand de Lesseps, 19th century French diplomat and entrepreneur, (1900). De Lesseps (1805-1894) built the Suez Canal to enable shipping to pass between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea rather than having to sail around the Cape of Good hope, completing the project in 1869. In 1880 he then went on to make the first attempt at building a canal to link the Atlantic and Pacific oceans across the Isthmus of Panama. A combination of the difficult terrain, a horrendous mortality rate amongst the workforce from tropical diseases and spiralling costs led to the abandonment the project in 1889 however. A print from The Life and Times of Queen Victoria, by Robert Wilson, Volume IV, Cassell and Company, London, Paris, New York, Melbourne, 1900.
The Print Collector collection

Date

1900

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM19C27_249

Model release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

50,7Mo (3,6Mo) / 32,1cm x 39,6cm / 3793 x 4673 (300dpi)

Mots clés

transport transport personnes gens mâle le travail homme hommes commerce industrie pays Français La France le commerce type métier canal endroit siècle profession Canal de Panamà génie civil B&W entrepreneur MONOCHROME 19e siècle Canal de Suez noir et blanc noir et blanc B W diplomate dix-neuvie siècle The Print Collector Ferdinand de Lesseps engraving portrait Unknown Robert Ferdinand Wilson Lesseps Robert Wilson engraving portrait