Jul 21, 2018 · A face is carved in the back of Abraham Lincoln's head. Many visitors to the memorial peer around the side of Daniel Chester French's statue of Abraham Lincoln looking for a face ambiguously carved in Lincoln's hair. However, not all can agree on whose face it is, or even where it is on the statue. The most plausible explanation is that it is ...

Dec 9, 2019 · In the main chamber of the memorial, some of these visitors lean against the back wall, crane their necks and contort their faces looking for a face in the rear of Lincoln's head. Some will attempt to decode Lincoln's hands.

Abraham Lincoln (1920) is a colossal seated figure of the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), sculpted by Daniel Chester French (1850–1931) and carved by the Piccirilli Brothers. Located in the Lincoln Memorial, constructed between 1914 and 1922 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., the statue was unveiled ...

The first public memorial to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in Washington, D.C., was a statue by Lot Flannery erected in front of the District of Columbia City Hall in 1868, three years after Lincoln's assassination in Ford’s Theatre.

Oct 24, 2017 · A face is carved in the back of Abraham Lincoln's head False. Many visitors to the memorial peer around the side of Daniel Chester French's statue of Abraham Lincoln looking for a face ambiguously carved in Lincoln's hair.

May 27, 2022 · It took more than 50 years to get a memorial for Abraham Lincoln built and opened to the public. Efforts to create a fitting tribute to Abraham Lincoln began immediately after the...

May 26, 2022 · The memorial famously depicts Lincoln in a contemplative state, with a worn expression on his face, the Stars and Stripes draped across his shoulders signifying perhaps the weight of holding a...

May 18, 2021 · When visitors approach the memorial dedicated to Abraham Lincoln, many are taken aback by its majestic temple-like appearance. The individual responsible for this design was architect Henry Bacon who modeled the memorial after the Greek temple known as …

Jan 17, 2025 · Lincoln Memorial, stately monument in Washington, D.C., honouring Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, and “the virtues of tolerance, honesty, and constancy in the human spirit.”

Abraham Lincoln allowed two sculptors to make life masks of his face - first in 1860 and then in 1865. These life masks were reproduced and several sculptors used them as the basis for statues. Clark Mills made this cast of Lincoln's face on February 11, 1865, sixty days before the president was assassinated.