# Study for "Toning the Bell"

- By: Walter Shirlaw (American, 1838 - 1909)
- Date: c. 1874
- Medium: brush and brown ink wash over graphite on laid paper
- Classification: Drawing
- Dimensions: sheet: 33.66 × 26.35 cm (13 1/4 × 10 3/8 in.)
- Culture: American
- Credit line: Corcoran Collection (Gift of Miss Florence Heywood, 1968)
- Museum: [National Gallery of Art](https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.184357.html)
- Rights: [Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://api.nga.gov/iiif/89b54d99-9479-4dc5-bf92-d581b74196f2/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)