This is Abraham Lincoln. He is one of the few things people can touch at the MFA. He is made of bronze. The more golden looking parts are the parts people like to touch the most. This is because when the people touch it the bronze is worn down and changed from their skin. I am not a scientist, so I don’t know all the science behind it.
This is a smaller version of the bigger statue because if you were gonna make a big statue you wouldn’t want to make it and then decide it’s just bad looking. It’s kinda like getting a tattoo, you’ll want a tattoo that you like but also you can get a really bad tattoo so you have to plan it out. They do the same thing with statues like this: use a material that is cheap and make a smaller version of the statue to see if they like the design.
The big version of this statue is at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. The big one is made of marble.
The Facts:
- Daniel Chester French (1850-1931)
- Modeled in 1916, cast in 1987, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Materials: Bronze
- Anonymous gift in memory of Beatrice Webb Perrin (1988.285)
- Gallery 102.1 (Niche between Wall Rotunda and Calderwood Courtyard)
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