Lincoln Anniversary Medal, 1893

  • Henry H. Zearing, American, 19th-early 20th century

Bronze

  • Overall: 1 13/16 inches (4.6 cm)

Gift of Armand H. Griffith

07.18

Department

American Art before 1950

Inscribed, on obverse, around portrait: 1809 Abraham Lincoln 1865 Inscribed, on reverse: With | malice toward | none with charity | for all with firmness | in the right as God | gives us to see the | right let us strive on. [circular symbols] Let us have faith that | right makes might and | in that faith let us | to the end, dar to | do out duty as we | understand it.

1907-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Henry H. Zearing, Lincoln Anniversary Medal, 1893, bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Armand H. Griffith, 07.18.