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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
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iam H.Prescott and Henry Ward Beecher.But the sculptor more particularlywas concerned with his greatestwork—an equestrian statue of Wash-ington for Bostons Public Garden. By Paul R. Kerchendorfer L THERE are times when the memorialerected to the memory of a great mansymbolizes all that he was—how helived and what that life stood for in activeoperation. The bronze statue of AbrahamLincoln in Lincoln Park, Washington, D. C,is such a memorial. The stark simplicity ofthe gaunt figure standing there, with handuplifted, as if in blessing, over the risingNegro, truly symbolizes what the man was,how he lived, and what his life stood for inactive operation. This statue of the emancipator grew from athought that bloomed in the grateful heartof an humble colored woman. Upon hearingof the death of Lincoln, Charlotte Scott, ofMarietta, Ohio, who had been a slave inVirginia, took her first five dollars earned asa free woman, and requested that it be usedtoward building a monument to the man who
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January 1 A.D. 18G3 The first contribution was made By Charlotte Scott, a freed woman of Virginia and consecrated By her suggestion and request On the day she heard of President Lincolns death To build a monument to his memory The entire cost of the statue, $18,000, wasraised by emancipated slaves. Congress thenauthorized its erection on public grounds byan Act of June 23, 1874, also appropriating$3,000 for the base and pedestal. This beautiful twelve-foot statue was de-signed by the great American sculptor,Thomas Ball. Mr. Ball studied art in Italyand was living in Florence when he createdhis Lincoln. The statue was cast in Munich.Lincoln is shown standing beside a pedestal,on which is the face of Washing-ton in relief, the lictors rodsand ax, and a shield. Themartyred President is holding theEmancipation Proclamation in hisright hand. His left hand is ex-tended over the figure of a power-ful colored man, who, havingbroken his shackles, is lifting him-self to his feet. Lincoln looks

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