Gilded Apostles HandBell and Plate
Title
Gilded Apostles HandBell and Plate
Subject
Musical Instruments -- Hand bell
Musical Instruments -- Apostles Bell
Musical Instruments -- Apostles Bell
Description
Writing or engraving on the bell are the twelve Apostles around skirt, kneeling cherubs form handle, cross on top. This bell is a replica of the nine ton bell handing in the basilica of St. Peter’s cathedral, Rome, known as the most beautiful bell in the world. Handbell noted in 1846-47 Washington diary of Elizabeth L. C. Dixon, Hartford, CT published in White House History, Issue 33.
Also, with the Bell is an accompanying Plate
Also, with the Bell is an accompanying Plate
Creator
Caroline Welling Van Deusen, Project Archivist
Rights
CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Original Format
Gilded brass
Physical Dimensions
Height: 7 ¼”
Diameter skirt: 4 ¼”
Diameter skirt: 4 ¼”
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- Date Added
- February 28, 2012
- Collection
- OBJECTS
- Item Type
- Still Image
- Tags
- Basilica, Hand bell, idiophone struck, priceless, private collection, St. Peters, St. Peters Bell
- Citation
- Caroline Welling Van Deusen, Project Archivist, “Gilded Apostles HandBell and Plate,” E - A r c h i V e s , accessed May 28, 2022, https://citizenarchivist.omeka.net/items/show/541.