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The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; ) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States. The copper statue, designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, a French sculptor, was built by Gustave Eiffel and dedicated on October 28, 1886. It was a gift to the United States from the people of France. The statue is of a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess, who bears a torch and a tabula ansata (a tablet evoking the law) upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. A broken chain lies at her feet. The statue is an icon of freedom and of the United States, and was a welcoming sight to immigrants arriving from abroad.
Bartholdi was inspired by French law professor and politician Édouard René de Laboulaye, who is said to have commented in 1865 that any monument raised to American independence would properly be a joint project of the French and American peoples. He may have been minded to honor the Union victory in the American Civil War and the end of slavery. Due to the post-war instability in France, work on the statue did not commence until the early 1870s. In 1875, Laboulaye proposed that the French finance the statue and the Americans provide the site and build the pedestal. Bartholdi completed the head and the torch-bearing arm before the statue was fully designed, and these pieces were exhibited for publicity at international expositions.
The torch-bearing arm was displayed at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876, and in Madison Square Park in Manhattan from 1876 to 1882. Fundraising proved difficult, especially for the Americans, and by 1885 work on the pedestal was threatened due to lack of funds. Publisher Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World started a drive for donations to complete the project that attracted more than 120,000 contributors, most of whom gave less than a dollar. The statue was constructed in France, shipped overseas in crates, and assembled on the completed pedestal on what was then called Bedloe's Island. The statue's completion was marked by New York's first ticker-tape parade and a dedication ceremony presided over by President Grover Cleveland.
The statue was administered by the United States Lighthouse Board until 1901 and then by the Department of War; since 1933 it has been maintained by the National Park Service. Public access to the balcony surrounding the torch has been barred for safety reasons since 1916.
"Statue of Liberty" is a 1978 single by XTC. It was recorded at EMI Studios, Abbey Road, London and subsequently banned by the BBC for the lyrics "In my fantasy I sail beneath your skirt". XTC performed the song on the BBC2 television show The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1978.
The Statue of Liberty is a colossal statue in New York harbor.
The Statue of Liberty may also refer to:
- Statue of Liberty National Monument
- Replicas of the Statue of Liberty
- The Statue of Liberty (film)
- "Statue of Liberty" (song)
- Statue of Liberty (Mytilene), Greece
- Liberty Statue (Budapest), Hungary
- Statue of Liberty is a character in Giannina Braschi's postmodern novel United States of Banana
- Statue of Liberty, Temporary Character in The Rock-afire Explosion animatronic Music Show
- Statue of Liberty Division, U.S. Army unit
- Statue of Liberty Bike
- Statue of Liberty play, a trick play in American Football
The Statue of Liberty ( Greek: Άγαλμα Ελευθερίας) is a bronze statue erected at the harbor of Mytilene on the island of Lesbos in Greece.
The statue was created by Greek sculptor Gregorios Zevgolis based on a design by local painter Georgios Jakobides. It was cast in Germany in 1922, and was erected and dedicated in Mytilene in 1930.
The statue and its marble base stand tall.
Usage examples of "statue of liberty".
A second-grader is snatched, never found, to reappear years later dead at the base of the Statue of Liberty.
Each day he visits two, perhaps three different offices, opens his sample case, shows them the copper trinkets, the rings and bottles and tiny flashlights, the models of the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty, the Eiffel Tower, gleaming in copper inside.
Near The Mouth Of The River, The Statue Of Liberty Was Just Catching The First Rays Of Dawn.
I took her down to three hundred and brought her in toward the Statue of Liberty at a slow drift, losing altitude imperceptibly as we crept up on the Headless Lady, so that by the time we were just off shore, we were right down on the deck.
At first she'd had no intention of going to the Statue of Liberty on the eighteenth of February, but the idea had kept gnawing at her.
To me, the two little Statue of Liberty torches that I saw reflected in the eyes of the cat reminded me of the wistful freedom I currently did not enjoy.
Cavendish, wrapped chin to ankle in the white cloak of his profession, reminded Ben of the Statue of Liberty .
Here he has just been arrested for everything but raping the Statue of Liberty, with Bigmouth Short denouncing him as the Antichrist on the same day.
He was lifting it up to the ceiling, like some bizarre parody of the Statue of Liberty with her torch.
Tyson drew on his cigarette and looked out the side window at the Statue of Liberty standing tall in its eerie green splendor.
Five thousand years later archaeologists would find fragments of the Statue of Liberty in New York.
Lucy flew us low past the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, where my Italian ancestors had gathered long ago to begin with nothing in a new world of opportunity.