Lincoln buff and talented amateur photographer David B. Wiegers sent us a photo of an additional “Lincoln Lawyer” bust by Hermon A. MacNeil. 

This one makes its home in the Law Library at Pennsylvania University.  Dave snapped these shots there recently.

Law Library at Pen Law School. ~~~ PHOTOS: Courtesy of Dave Wiegers Photography

The piece resides at the Law Library of the University of Pennsylvania.  It is new to this website.

Eight of these busts were cast in about 1911 from a standing Lincoln piece that MacNeil sculpted in 1911.

Wiegers pairs (1.) his love of photography with (2.) a quest to travel to every Lincoln statue and monument in the 35 states he has visited in the last 15 years.

• See his story at: https://dbwiegers.zenfolio.com/about.html
• And view over 500 photos of his Lincoln Collection on the front end of his website: https://dbwiegers.zenfolio.com/  

Not pictured on his website is his Boston Terrier, named “Lincoln.”

© Dave Wiegers Photography

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The Penn Law Journal describes their “Lincoln Lawyer Bust” this way:

 Opposite the front entrance, in full view straight ahead on the massive staircase leading up to the library from the Great Hall, stands a statue of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln, who led the most massive legal and political reform the United States has ever known, is a superb example of legal greatness as Lewis Hall has memorialized it-of revolution in the interest of tradition. For Lincoln avowedly fought to realize the ideals of the Declaration of Independence, even as he essentially restructured the legal landscape in the interests of fundamental justice.

The statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Great Hall, which faces the original entrance to the Law School, was immediately visible upon passing through the massive twin doors on 34th Street. The symbolic power of the statue, the role of Lincoln as martyr to resurrection of the righteousness of the American republic, gave students a tangible focus for legal greatness, a sense that lawyerly skills were integral to the discernment and sense of justice of the most heroic of all American presidents.

The Penn Law Journal of 2014 [Vol. 31, Iss. 2 [2014], Art. 1 ]

“Uncle Hermon would be Proud too.”  dnl