The city beautiful
Brief overview and history of the 1869 dedication of the Henry Kirke Brown statue of Abraham Lincoln in Brooklyn's Prospect Park. Addresses delivered at the dedication are reprinted in full.
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Detached from The Bulletin of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, volume II, number 2, February 6, 1909.
The W.K. Brown sculpture of Lincoln in Brooklyn's Prospect Park originally was placed in the elliptical plaza adjoining Prospect Park, today known as Grand Army Plaza. In 1896, by then dwarfed by the massive Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch (1892), the statue was relocated to the lower terrace of the Concert Grove. Though posed in a classical stance, Lincoln is depicted as a real man, holding a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation, on which are inscribed the words, "Shall be forever free."
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