Engraving the Borglum Lincoln

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Year:: 1929
Contributor:: McCormick, Howard, 1875-1943 (wood engraver); Borglum, Gutzon, 1867-1941 (sculptor); Rutledge, Archibald Hamilton, 1883-1973 (writer)
Genre:: relief halftones (prints); wood engravings (prints); stylized portraits
Subject:: Lincoln, Abraham > 1809-1865 > Portraits; Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell) > 1782-1865 > Portraits
Local ID:: Pr M156boa.4
Extent:: 1 photograph; 29.4 x 21.1 cm.

Abstract:: Halftone print (after photograph) of a wood engraving created by Howard McCormick, after Gutzon Borglum's sculpture Head of Lincoln, along with McCormick's account of how he worked with Borglum to make the wood engraving. Published in "The Mentor", March 1929, page 5. On the reverse (p. 6) is a separate article, entitled "A Unique Lincoln Portrait," that discusses a portrait of Lincoln by an unknown artist that was created by copying the body from a portrait of John C. Calhoun using Lincoln's head in lieu of that of Calhoun, authored by Archibald Rutledge.

"Engraving the Borglum Lincoln" (1929). Lincoln Graphics. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:69335/

Lincoln Graphics

Prints in the Lincoln collection are classified by Meserve numbers, and include most of the known photographic images of Lincoln, along with engravings and popular prints by, among other firms, Currier & Ives and Kurz & Allen. There are also …
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