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Collection Online as of July 20, 2026

A dark brown, wood bell takes the shape of a nude person holding a circular disk. Stylized, the person has close-cropped hair, sunken eyes, and a flat mouth. They have a cylindrical body and protruding breasts as their rectangular hands rest atop the disk, at waist-level. Serrated patterns mark the disk, wrapping in circles around the edges and, within the borders, outlining triangles that point in towards the elevated center of the disk.

Round Tower, Castle of Munoth, Schafhausen, Switzerland

1842

John William Casilear

(American, 1811–1893)
America
graphite and orange and yellow crayon, with traces of black and white paint
Sheet: 30.4 x 19.8 cm (11 15/16 x 7 13/16 in.)
Gift of Mrs. John C. Newington 1975.19
Location: Not on view

Description

Casilear began his career as an engraver but shifted to landscape painting at the suggestion of his friend, the painter Asher B. Durand (1796–1866). He made this drawing while traveling in Europe with Durand and another New York landscape painter, John Frederick Kensett (1816–1872).
  • American Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 19-July 12, 1998).
    Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; 4/19/98 - 7/12/98. "American Drawings from the Permanent Collection."
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