Abraham Lincoln life masks and pair of hands [art original], 1886 and undated.

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Abraham Lincoln life masks and pair of hands [art original], 1886 and undated.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83308538

Depicts Abraham Lincoln's face and hands (both cast from life); the bronze pieces cast in 1886 from the 1860 Volk originals.

1 sculpture : bronze ; 23 x 21 x 15 cm.1 sculpture (2 pieces) : bronze ; 6-8 cm. high1 cast (sculpture) : plaster ; 26 x 22 x 15 cm.

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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...

Volk, Leonard Wells, 1828-1895

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Leonard Wells Volk (1828-1895) was an American sculptor. Born November 7, 1828 in Wellstown (now Wells), New York, he was one of twelve children of Garrett and Elizabeth Gesner Volk. At sixteen he began work as a marble cutter in his father's shop in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Four years later, in 1848, he went to St. Louis, Missouri, where he opened a studio and studied drawing and modeling independent of formal instruction. Stephen A. Douglas, a cousin of Volk's wife, became inter...