page_title: Lincoln Monument (Philadelphia)
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Lincoln Monument (Philadelphia) / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: Statue of a seated Abraham Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation. Commissioned soon after his assassination, unveiled in 1871 in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park. By Randolph Rodgers (sign slightly unclear here)
context_page_description: Lincoln Monument (Philadelphia) is a monument honoring Abraham Lincoln in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. One of the first initiated in memory of the assassinated president, the monument was designed by neoclassical sculptor Randolph Rogers and completed in 1871. It is now located northeast of the intersection of Kelly Drive and Sedgley Drive, opposite Boathouse Row.
context_section_description: Rogers modeled Lincoln the Emancipator in Rome. The twice-life-size bronze sculpture depicts a seated Lincoln in the act of signing the Emancipation Proclamation, and is about 8.67 ft (2.64 m) in height, 4 ft (1.2 m) in width, and 8 ft (2.4 m) in length.
  The granite base is in three sections: The upper section features four bronze plaques depicting a laurel wreath and crossed swords (east), crossed American flags (west), the Seal of the City of Philadelphia (north), and the Great Seal of the United States (south). At the corners, bronze eagles stand atop granite scrolls before bronze garlands of laurel leaves. The middle section features the monument's dedication inscription and quotations from the Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, and Second Inaugural Address. The lower section is sloped and rough-cut, with projecting buttresses at the corners. The base is about 23.5 ft (7.2 m) in height.
  The statue and bronzework were cast at the Royal Bavarian Foundry in Munich, in 1870, at a cost of $3,000. The granite base was executed by Struthers & Sons, a Philadelphia masonry firm. "The cost of the statue was nineteen thousand three hundred dollars, and of the granite base nine thousand four hundred dollars."
caption: Lincoln the Emancipator
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