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The focus of the
Lincoln Memorial
is this sculpture of
Abraham Lincoln
, seated.
Daniel Chester French
studied many of
Mathew Brady
's photographs of Lincoln, and depicted the president as worn and pensive, gazing eastwards down the
Reflecting Pool
at the capital's starkest
emblem
of the Union, the
Washington Monument
. One hand is clenched, the other open. Beneath his hands, the Roman
fasces
,
symbols
of the authority of the Republic, are sculpted in relief on the seat.
Photo credit:
Raul654
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