ID: 700009036 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009036	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Untitled Rendering of Statue, Lincoln Memorial (drawing (visual work); Henry Bacon, architect; Jules Guérin, delineator; ca. 1910; United States National Archives and Records Administration (...;)

Note: Ideas for memorializing President Abraham Lincoln in the nation's capital were numerous and diverse. Henry Bacon's winning classical design was inspired by the Parthenon atop the Acropolis in Athens, Greece.

Titles:

Untitled Rendering of Statue, Lincoln Memorial (preferred,C,U,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

drawing (visual work) [300033973] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

drawings (preferred)

Creation Date: ca. 1910

Creator Display:

Henry Bacon, architect; Jules Guérin, delineator [preferred]

architect Bacon, Henry (American architect, 1866-1924) [500029359]

delineator Guerin, Jules (American painter and illustrator, 1866-1946) [500018717]

Locations:

Current: United States National Archives and Records Administration (Washington, DC, United States) [500263780] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Display Materials: Pencil and wash on linen

	pencils (drawing and writing equipment) [300022439]
	.......(Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name), equipment, <equipment by process>, image-making equipment, <equipment for drafting| drawing| and writing>, <drafting| drawing and writing equipment by specific type>)

	paper (fiber product) [300014109]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>)

	linen (material) [300014069]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, textile materials, <textile materials by composition or origin>)

Dimensions: 31 3/4" x 36 5/8"

Cultures:

American (preferred)

General Subject:

architecture (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	Abraham Lincoln (American president, 1809-1865) [500344436]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	commemoration (function) [300404834]
	.....(Activities Facet, Functions (hierarchy name), functions (activities), <functions by specific context>, social functions) (AAT)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

............... Group 42: Records of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital, 1790 - 1992

.................... Lincoln Memorial: Folder 1

..... Conceptual Works

.......... Conceptual works by class: for architecture

............... Lincoln Memorial Project

Sources and Contributors:
Untitled Rendering of Statue, Lincoln Memorial	........ [VP]
	........ National Archives and Records Administration database (1987-)

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... National Archives and Record Administration [online] (2000-)