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The image displays a large, brass bell enclosed in a metal frame with a handle on the left side. The color palette is mainly metallic browns and golds against a white background. The bell's clapper is visible underneath, with an inscription plate on the upper front section of the bell.
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The image displays a large, brass bell enclosed in a metal frame with a handle on the left side. The color palette is mainly metallic browns and golds against a white background. The bell's clapper is visible underneath, with an inscription plate on the upper front section of the bell.

National Gallery of Art · Index of American Design

Bell (From a Locomotive)

Harry Mann Waddell and Edith Towner

Date
c. 1940
Medium
watercolor and graphite on paper
Dimensions
overall: 35.6 x 26.5 cm (14 x 10 7/16 in.)
Classification
Index of American Design · Drawing
Accession number
1943.8.8672
Credit line
Index of American Design
Time span
1926 to 1950
Department
CG-W
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • American
Inscription

lower right in watercolor: Edith Towner / HARRY M.WADDELL

NGA object ID 20869. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.