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Lincoln Masks
Contributed by Richard Rozzelle in Museums on June 22, 2009
National Portrait Gallery
Neither of these are death masks. The one on the left was taken at the onset of his first term, before a young woman in a letter told him, “I feel that you would look handsome with whiskers.” The other mask was made in the last few months before his death. The stresses of those few years casused marked weathering of his features.
