Collection Highlights
Wedding dress: yellow brocade with lace
1730-50 with several alterations into the 20th century
1949.115a
Silk brocade, needlepoint lace; silk chiffon
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Title
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Date
1861
Medium
Gilded plaster, wood, and glass
Dimensions
Overall (plaster): 7 x 5 3/8 in. (17.8 x 13.7 cm)
Frame: 11 3/4 x 10 x 1 3/4 in. (29.8 x 25.4 x 4.4 cm)
Description
Bas-relief portrait.
Credit Line
Gift of Miss Lena Cadwalader Evans
Object Number
1936.616
Marks
inscribed: below shoulder: "Patented/S.....s 1861"
paper label: on back in pen: "Medallion Portrait of President Lincoln presented to the/Metropolitan Fair by/S. Ellis Sculptor/594 Broadway"
Gallery Label
This portrait was made in the first year of Lincoln's presidency, and was the original used for the Lincoln-Indian Peace Medal. It was presented by the sculptor to the Metropolitan Fair held in 1864 at the 14th Street Armory in New York for the benefit of the sick and wounded men of the Union Army.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
