ID: 700009035 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009035	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

East Elevation of Lincoln Memorial (undetermined (information indicator); Henry Bacon, architect; 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. One proposal suggested a memorial road running from Washington, DC, to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, while others recommended memorials at a variety of sites within Washington, DC. In 1911, despite criticism that the reclaimed land there was unstable, isolated, and subject to "malarial ague," the Commission of Fine Arts chose a West Potomac Park site for the memorial, located on an axis with the Washington Monument and the Capitol Building. Henry Bacon's winning classical design was inspired by the Parthenon atop the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. The 36 Doric columns around the outside of the memorial symbolize the number of states in the Union at the time of Lincoln's death.

Titles:

East Elevation of Lincoln Memorial (preferred,C,U,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

undetermined (information indicator) [300379012] (preferred)

..... (Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), multidisciplinary concepts)

Classifications:

not applicable (preferred)

Creation Date: ca. 1910

Creator Display:

Henry Bacon, architect [preferred]

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

Locations:

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

Display Materials: Ink and washes on paper mounted on paper and linen

	ink [300015012]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>)

	wash (material) [300011051]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>)

	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: 16" x 38 1/2"

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)

	elevation (orthographic projection) [300034065]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by form>, <visual works by form of image>, <images by method of representation>, <images by method of projection>, orthographic projections (images)) (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:
East Elevation of Lincoln Memorial	........ [VP]
	........ National Archives and Records Administration database (1987-)

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

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