Cyrus West Field, American businessman and financier Size:M: 50 x 40cm the eyes are baked and

the eyes are baked and the colours set (top right)

This specimen was brought back from the Royal Society Halley Bay Expedition in 1956

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Cyrus West Field, American businessman and financier Size:M: 50 x 40cm the eyes are baked andCyrus West Field, American businessman and financier, c1849 (1955). It was through Field's (1819 1892) suggestion and financial aid that the first Atlantic cable was laid. He later became a prominent promoter of New York's elevated railroad and owner of two newspapers. A print from Mathew Brady Historian with a Camera by James D Horan, Bonanza Books, New York, 1955.