Height 24 in. Inscribed on rear, "Thomas D. Jones Fecit / Washington MDCCCLXIV".

Thomas Dow Jones first met Lincoln when he was commissioned by the Republican Party of Cincinnati to create a portrait bust of the president-elect in Springfield. The resulting likeness was well-regarded by Lincoln, who declared upon seeing it that it "looks very much like the critter." Four years later, Jones paid a visit to Washington in order to create another bust of Lincoln, this one to be cast in bronze. The resulting work was gifted by Jones to Thomas Addison Richards, secretary of the National Academy of Design and a well-known landscape artist. It would eventually find its way into the collections of William Randolph Hearst and Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge, and, upon their deaths in 1973, the work was rediscovered, and many copies were made. Jones himself would remark at the change he'd seen in Lincoln's face over the preceding four years, as the care and strain of presiding over the most destructive conflict to take place on American soil took its toll on his features.