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Life Cast of the Hands and Face of Abraham Lincoln

Leonard Wells Volk

Cast in plaster 1860; cast in bronze by 1888

Life Cast of the Hands and Face of Abraham Lincoln by Leonard Wells Volk

Medium

Bronze

Dimensions

Life Mask: 24.1 × 21 × 14 cm (9 1/2 × 8 1/4 × 5 7/8 in.); Right hand: 14.6 × 13 × 8.9 cm (5 3/4 × 5 1/8 × 3 1/2 in.); Left hand: 16.5 × 10.8 × 7.5 cm (6 1/2 × 4 1/4 × 2 7/8 in.)

Classification

sculpture

Department

Arts of the Americas

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Accession Number

566

Rights

Public Domain

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