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Lincoln Memorial

Bacon, Henry; French, Daniel Chester
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URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/126543
Date
1914-1922
Description
Frontal view of the statue of Lincoln; The Lincoln Memorial, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., is a United States Presidential memorial built to honor 16th President Abraham Lincoln. The architect was Henry Bacon, the sculptor was Daniel Chester French, and the painter of the interior murals was Jules Guerin. The building is in the form of a Greek Doric temple and contains a large seated sculpture of Abraham Lincoln and inscriptions of two well-known speeches by Lincoln. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 2/7/2008)
Type of Work
memorial
Subject
architectural exteriors, rulers and leaders, Greek Revival
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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Licensed for educational and research use by the MIT community only
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