Object Details
- artist
- Gasparro, Frank
- Description (Brief)
- This drawing of Abraham Lincoln's birthplace was one of many designs made by Frank Gasparro in 1959 for the reverse image of the cent. The new coin was to honor the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth. From the many sketches and ideas offered, the Mint chose the now-famous image of the Lincoln Memorial, and it remained on the reverse of the cent for the next fifty years. To celebrate the 2009 bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, four new designs were placed on the reverse of the cent. The design, called Birth and Early Childhood in Kentuckylooks very much like Gasparro's log cabin drawing done fifty years earlier.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Christina Gasparro Hansen
- ca 1958
- ID Number
- 2009.0005.009
- catalog number
- 2009.0005.009
- accession number
- 2009.0005
- Object Name
- sketch
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 26.4 cm x 20 cm; 10 3/8 in x 7 7/8 in
- image: 13.5 cm; 5 5/16 in
- place made
- United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: National Numismatic Collection
- Coins, Currency and Medals
- Art of Gasparro
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Art - Currency
- Record ID
- nmah_1367514
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-33e6-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
