 A large number of his originals hang in the Library of Parliament in Cape Town, the University of the Witwatersrand and the Africana Museum in Johannesburg.The book "Travels in the Interior of South Africa" (1868) by James Chapman, was illustrated by Bell.His "Reports of the Surveyor-General, Charles D. Bell Esq., on the copper fields of Little Namaqualand (1855)" was written after a three-month visit to the area.