Lincoln Memorial One Cent Coin Sketch, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 1958
date: label: date made
content: ca 1958
name: label: artist
content: Gasparro, Frank
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This image may have been one Frank Gasparro showed to get approval from the Mint to create the Lincoln Memorial cent. The fine detail in this drawing includes a miniscule statue of Abraham Lincoln, wreathes and boughs decorating the monument, and carefully executed lines showing perspective on the steps and in the columns. The inclusion of Gasparro's signature (on the bottom right corner of the image) shows us that Gasparro felt this drawing was more important than many of his multitude of drawings.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: Subject
content: Art - Currency
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content: Work and Industry: National Numismatic Collection
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content: Coins, Currency and Medals
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content: Art of Gasparro
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Christina Gasparro Hansen
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2009.0005.013
label: catalog number
content: 2009.0005.013
label: accession number
content: 2009.0005
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sketch
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: black mat: 22.8 cm x 20.9 cm x .1 cm; 8 31/32 in x 8 7/32 in x 1/32 in
label: Measurements
content: white sheet: 20.4 cm x 18.5 cm x .1 cm; 8 1/32 in x 7 9/32 in x 1/32 in
label: Measurements
content: image: 13.5 cm; 5 5/16 in