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[Note: A fuller record for
example number 155 can be seen at http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/cdwa/examples/122_memorial.html]
Work Record
Class [controlled]:
• architecture • sculpture •
American art
*Work
Type [link]: •
memorial • historic monument
*Title/Name: Lincoln
Memorial Title Type: preferred
*Creator
Display: architect Henry Bacon (American,
1866-1924) and sculptor Daniel Chester French
(American, 1850-1931)
*Role
[link]: architect [link]:
Bacon, Henry
*Role
[link]: sculptor [link]: French,
Daniel Chester
*Creation
Date Display: designed 1911-1912;
constructed 1914-1922
[controlled]: Qualifier:
design Earliest: 1911
Latest: 1912 | Qualifier:
construction Earliest:
1914 Latest: 1922
*Subject
[links]: •
architecture • commemoration •
Abraham Lincoln (American president, 1809-1865)
• Union (United States) • temples
• Doric order • columns
• states (political divisions)
Culture [link]: American
*Current
Location [link]: Washington
(District of Columbia, United States)
*Measurements:
building: 30.18 m (height) (99 feet); statue:
5.79 m (height) (19 feet)
[controlled] Extent: building
Value: 30.18
Unit: m Type: height
| Extent: statue
Value: 5.79
Unit: m Type: width
*Materials
and Techniques: exterior: Colorado
Yule marble; tripods: Pink Tennessee marble; interior
walls and columns: Indiana limestone; ceiling:
Alabama marble saturated with paraffin for translucency;
floor and wall base: Pink Tennessee marble; pedestal
and platform for statue: Tennessee marble; statue:
White Georgia marble
Extent: building
Material [links]: •
marble • limestone | Extent:
sculpture Material [links]: •
marble
Inscriptions:
inscribed above the statue: IN THIS TEMPLE / AS
IN THE HEARTS OF THE PEOPLE / FOR WHOM HE SAVED
THE UNION / THE MEMORY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN / IS
ENSHRINED FOREVER; [the northern wall contains
an inscription of Lincoln's second inaugural speech,
the southern wall contains an inscription of the
Gettysburg address]
Description: Design
was chosen by competition. The chosen design was
influenced by the Greek Parthenon. Built into
the design are symbols of the Union like the 36
exterior Doric columns representing the 36 states
in the Union at the time of Lincoln's death.
Description Source
[link]: Mall
in Washington, 1791-1991. Edited by Richard
Longstreth. Hanover and London: University Press
of New England, 1991.
Required and recommended elements
are marked with an asterisk.
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