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Drawings 16th-century inscribed bronze handbell

Object number

LDSAL2020.42.100

Artist/Designer/Maker

Vertue, George - Artist

Production date

1789

Material

Paper
Pen
Ink
Wash

Technique

Drawing

Dimensions

Height: 227mm
Width: 185mm
Height (of Mount): 274mm
Width (of Mount): 231mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

O MATER DEI MEMENTO MEI

Inscription content

PETRVS CHEYNEVS ME FECYT 1366. [1566 misread]

An ANTIENT [sic] BELL formerly belonging to a Nunnery in Essex, & since to the late Earl of Oxford.
Vide Vetusta Mon. Vol. II. plate XVII.

Inscription content

G.Vertue delin.

References

Reference (free text)

Vetusta Monumenta 2 (1789): pl. 17.