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"Shockingly Realistic Sculpture Portrays Abraham Lincoln" - ELCore - 06-07-2013 08:56 PM
Shockingly Realistic Sculpture Portrays Abraham Lincoln
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RE: "Shockingly Realistic Sculpture Portrays Abraham Lincoln" - BettyO - 06-07-2013 09:08 PM
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?!
RE: "Shockingly Realistic Sculpture Portrays Abraham Lincoln" - J. Beckert - 06-07-2013 09:16 PM
I've always heard grey or grey/blue.
RE: "Shockingly Realistic Sculpture Portrays Abraham Lincoln" - ELCore - 06-07-2013 09:54 PM
Light bluish/grayish, I believe.
RE: "Shockingly Realistic Sculpture Portrays Abraham Lincoln" - RJNorton - 06-08-2013 04:06 AM
"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.
RE: "Shockingly Realistic Sculpture Portrays Abraham Lincoln" - LincolnMan - 06-08-2013 04:36 AM
That is stunning.
RE: "Shockingly Realistic Sculpture Portrays Abraham Lincoln" - Gene C - 06-08-2013 06:43 AM
That's incredible, what's it made of? and where is it?
RE: "Shockingly Realistic Sculpture Portrays Abraham Lincoln" - BettyO - 06-08-2013 06:51 AM
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.....
RE: "Shockingly Realistic Sculpture Portrays Abraham Lincoln" - Laurie Verge - 06-08-2013 12:50 PM
It is absolutely amazing. I wonder where it will go when it leaves the Reagan facility?
RE: "Shockingly Realistic Sculpture Portrays Abraham Lincoln" - LincolnMan - 06-08-2013 02:49 PM
Looking at this very realistic model of Abe- he doesn't seem so homely as portrayed at times.
RE: "Shockingly Realistic Sculpture Portrays Abraham Lincoln" - Joe Di Cola - 06-08-2013 04:30 PM
It is like being in the room with him!
RE: "Shockingly Realistic Sculpture Portrays Abraham Lincoln" - Liz Rosenthal - 06-09-2013 03:45 PM
It's gorgeous. I have to see it someday! Maybe it will become part of the Lincolniana of Springfield IL.
RE: "Shockingly Realistic Sculpture Portrays Abraham Lincoln" - LincolnMan - 06-14-2013 04:39 PM
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.
RE: "Shockingly Realistic Sculpture Portrays Abraham Lincoln" - RJNorton - 06-15-2013 03:57 AM
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.
RE: "Shockingly Realistic Sculpture Portrays Abraham Lincoln" - LincolnMan - 06-15-2013 04:48 AM
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?