The statue was built in France, shipped overseas in crates, and assembled on the completed pedestal on what was then called Bedloe's Island. Publisher Joseph Pulitzer, of the New York World, started a drive for donations to finish the project and attracted more than 120,000 contributors, most of whom gave less than a dollar. Fundraising proved difficult, especially for the Americans, and by 1885 work on the pedestal was threatened by lack of funds. 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. 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. In 1875, Laboulaye proposed that the French finance the statue and the U.S. Because of the post-war instability in France, work on the statue did not commence until the early 1870s. independence would properly be a joint project of the French and American peoples. The statue became an icon of freedom and of the United States, and was a welcoming sight to immigrants arriving from abroad.īartholdi was inspired by a French law professor and politician, ?douard Ren? de Laboulaye, who is said to have commented in 1865 that any monument raised to U.S. She holds a torch above her head with her right hand, and in her left hand carries a tabula ansata inscribed in Roman numerals with "JULY IV MDCCLXXVI" (July 4, 1776), the date of the U.S. The Statue of Liberty is a figure of a robed woman representing Libertas, a Roman liberty goddess. The statue was dedicated on October 28, 1886. The copper statue, a gift from the people of France to the people of the United States, was designed by French sculptor Fr?d?ric Auguste Bartholdi and built by Gustave Eiffel. The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World French: La Libert?clairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States.
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