The Tsar Bell, Tsarsky Kolokoi or Royal Bell in the Kremlin, Moscow. The largest bell in the world, made of bronze, commissioned by Empress Anna Ivanovna. Copied from English traveller Edward Daniel Clarke's Travels in Various Countries, 1810. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1810. A 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with almost 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.

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