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The very statesman-like Lincoln in London's Trafalgar Square:
The very statesman-like Lincoln in London's Trafalgar Square:
You beat me to it! I was planning to show that one next week.Manchester, England, also has a statue of Lincoln, erected in honor of Lincoln's gratitude to the people of Manchester for supporting the Union blockade of Southern ports. They did so despite the fact that the blockade prevented cotton from reaching England. Manchester, a mill town, was among many hard hit economically as a result. Mills closed, and many people were out of work. But cotton workers in Manchester joined with liberal politicians, in support for the cause of ending American slavery, to express strong support for the blockade nonetheless, countering the demands of mill owners in several cities who called for the Royal Navy to be sent to break the blockade. You can read the full story here.
This photo of the statue in Lincoln Square, Manchester, is one of several views on Waymarking.com.
Very cool!One of the most striking Lincoln portraits I've seen recently is this one by "word" artist Daniel Duffy. Lincoln's face is formed by the words of his Second Inaugural Address. The Address also serves as the background. (If you visit the artist's website, you can enter a drawing he's holding on Aug. 31 to give away a framed print of the portrait.)
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I love Lincoln For The Defense. Very compelling picture.
A favorite of mine is in Richmond near Tredegar Iron Works. Lincoln and child.
Here is Lincoln appearing in a different form of art, a poem by Pulitzer-Prize-winning author MacKinlay Kantor. (But, @chellers, would you please move it to a more appropriate thread if it belongs somewhere else.) You can read the entire poem, “Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg,” in Kantor’s book “Turkey in the Straw: A Book of American Ballads and Primitive Verse.”
The verses end with a few lines that portray Lincoln’s humanity as perceived by a dog:
“I was a dog of Gettysburg. I trotted near the train
And nosed among the officers, who kicked me to my pain.
A man came by. . . . I could not see. I howled.
The light was dim,
But when I brushed against his legs, I liked the smell of him.”
I have no idea whether Kantor was familiar with this photograph of the crowd watching the parade to the dedication of Soldiers’ National Cemetery at Gettysburg on Nov. 19, 1863, but I would like to think that he was inspired to write these few lines after gazing intently at this scene and discovering the little dog standing with the people on Baltimore Street that day.
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