Statues of Abraham Lincoln (1915) (14784544365)

Identifier: statuesofabblinc (find matches)
Title: Statues of Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Ball, Thomas, 1819-1911 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents in art Presidents Large-scale sculpture Bronze sculpture, American Slaves
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Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library



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odeling, the sur-faces and textures of his statues seem oddlysmooth; but the figures are always truly sculp-turesque and are serious and dignified in conception. He published an autobiogra-phy entitled My Threescore Years and Ten (1891) and a number of lyrics and other poems.Consult Taft, Uistory of American Sculpture (New York, 1903). Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 with funding from State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library archive.org/details/statuesofabblinc PjU^ju j*- * EMANCIPATIONWASHINGTON, D. C. The entire cost of Thomas Balls statue of Lincoln, located in Lincoln park, Washington, D. C. , was met by negroes. It is the well- (known Emancipation group with which Boston end Florence, Italy» are Us familiar. This statue represents Lincoln, life size, standing with theEmancipation Proclamation in his right hand, and his left hand extendedover the head of a kneeling slave. It was erected at a cost of $17,000,and is ten feet high. It was unveiled in 1876.
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