"Shockingly Realistic Sculpture Portrays Abraham Lincoln"

[ELCore]

Shockingly Realistic Sculpture Portrays Abraham Lincoln

[BettyO]

OMG - that's beautiful!

Question - I've read that Lincoln's eyes were hazel and then that they were blue! What color were they really - anyone know?!

[J. Beckert]

I've always heard grey or grey/blue.

[ELCore]

Light bluish/grayish, I believe.

[RJNorton]

"If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said, I am, in height, six feet, four inches, nearly; lean in flesh, weighing, on an average, one hundred and eighty pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair, and grey eyes - no other marks or brands recollected."

SOURCE: Abraham Lincoln, in a brief biographical sketch, December 20, 1859.

[LincolnMan]

That is stunning.

[Gene C]

That's incredible, what's it made of? and where is it?

[BettyO]

This statue was made by a Japanese artist and is part of the Life and Times of Abraham Lincoln exhibit at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Library.

See the article listed in the first post to go to the site for this and other views of this beautiful creation.....

[Laurie Verge]

It is absolutely amazing. I wonder where it will go when it leaves the Reagan facility?

[LincolnMan]

Looking at this very realistic model of Abe- he doesn't seem so homely as portrayed at times.

[Joe Di Cola]

It is like being in the room with him!

[Liz Rosenthal]

It's gorgeous. I have to see it someday! Maybe it will become part of the Lincolniana of Springfield IL.

[LincolnMan]

I don't know why, but looking at this very realistic model of Lincoln made me wonder about his teeth. Do we know what the condition of his teeth were like? Washington had false teeth, I believe- I don't think Lincoln did.

[RJNorton]

Bill, the only reference I have seen to his teeth was in a letter:

"Do you remember my going to the city while I was in Kentucky, to have a tooth extracted, and making a failure of it? Well, that same old tooth got to paining me so much, that about a week since I had it torn out, bringing with it a bit of the jawbone; the consequence of which is that my mouth is now so sore that I can neither talk, nor eat. I am litterally ``subsisting on savoury remembrances''---that is, being unable to eat, I am living upon the remembrance of the delicious dishes of peaches and cream we used to have at your house."

This quote is from a letter Lincoln wrote to Mary Speed (Joshua Speed's half sister) on September 27, 1841.

[LincolnMan]

Wow, that sounds like a dental nightmare. Nice reference Roger! I wonder what condition his teeth were. I know during the Civil War, there existed tooth powder for the troops. I also chuckle thinking this: weren't the local dentists also barbers?