The Statue of Liberty, album

Statue of Liberty (more formally, Liberty Enlightening the World, and more colloquially, Lady Liberty) is a structure located on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, presented to the United States on the centennial of the signing of the American Declaration of Independence as a gift from France. It was designed by Frédéric Bartholdi and gets its green coloring from patination of the outer copper covering. The statue is world-renowned for being the first thing sea-borne visitors, immigrants, and returning Americans see upon entering New York Harbor and has been known as a beacon of freedom to much of the world. It earned UNESCO World Heritage Site status in 1984.

Bedloe's Island in 1917 [2]
Attitudes and laws around U.S. immigration have vacillated between welcoming and restrictive since the country's beginning[4]. The women's suffrage movement, African-Americans and Chinese immigrants criticized the statue as representative of a nation that was not yet free for everyone. While the Statue of Liberty has, for most of its time in New York’s harbor, been framed as a symbol of immigration in America, at the time of its assembly, the country was just beginning to formally limit the number of people who could immigrate each year [3]. The 1882 the Chinese Exclusion Act was voted, this act was the first in American history to place broad restrictions on certain immigrant groups [4].
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi \| Het Vrijheidbeeld of la Liberté éclairant le monde, de bewogen geschiedenis van een onbewogen vrouw [1] Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi \| Een kleine geschiedenis [2] Het verhaal van een verbeelding. Achtergrond en inspiratiebronnen van la Liberté éclairant le monde Pio Fedi, Statua della Libertà della Poesia, tomba Giovanni Battista Niccolini, Santa Croce, Firenze Album Statue of Liberty

Pierre Petit, La Liberté éclairant le monde, Woodburytypie, Goupil & Cie., 1883, collectie Rijksmuseum Amsterdam	Maxime Du Camp, Gournah, Colosse Monolithe d'Aménôpht III; Thèbes - 1849/51, printed 1852 [5]	Project van Auguste Bartholdi van een monumentaal beeld bij de ingang van de haven van Suez. Waterverf, 1869. Bartholdi Museum in Colmar

Statue of Liberty (detail of the head), Libery Island, Upper New York Bay, New York	Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, Presentation Drawing of The Statue of Liberty Illuminating the World, 1875, houtskool op papier, opgehoogd met witte kalk, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York	Albert Fernique, Photograph of a drawing of the Statue of Liberty in Upper New York Bay, 1883

Albert Fernique, Men in a workshop shaping sheets of copper for the construction of the Statue of Liberty, 1883	Albert Fernique, Construction of the skeleton and plaster surface of the left arm and hand of the Statue of Liberty [¢olours byhistorical digital colourist Marina Amaral]	Head of the Statue of Liberty on display in the park Champ-de-Mars in Paris

Emmanuel Flamant, Statue de la liberté, main et flamme	Rechterarm en fakkel van het Vrijheidsbeeld, 1876, Wereldtentoonstelling Philadelphia. Rechts op het kleine platfom staat Bartholdi	Rechterarm en fakkel van het Vrijheidsbeeld, Madison Square Park, New York

Emmanuel Flamant, La main et le flambeau de la Statue de la Liberté, 1876	Anonyme, Moulage de la tête de la Statue de la Liberté, Épreuve positive sur papier albuminé, 1877/187, Musée des arts et métiers, Paris	Charles Marville, Tête de la statue de la Liberté par Auguste Bartholdi, à Paris, durant l'Exposition universelle de 1878

Pierre Petit, Le buste de la Statue de la Liberté sur le Champ-de-Mars, 1878	De inhuldiging van de metalen structuur van Gustave Eiffel voor het Vrijheidsbeeld, op de binnenplaats van de werkplaatsen Gaget, Gauthier et Compagnie, op 24 oktober 1881	De montage van het Vrijheidsbeeld op de metalen structuur van Gustave Eiffel, op de binnenplaats van de werkplaatsen Gaget, Gauthier et Compagnie

Albert Fernique, Steigers voor de montage van het Vrijheidsbeeld	Pierre Petit, Le montage de la Statue de la Liberté, 1882	Albert Fernique, De montage van het Vrijheidsbeeld rond 1882, 1882/1884 [1]

Camillo Pacetti, la Legge di Cristo, 1808	Camillo Pacetti, La statua della Legge Nuova sulla facciata del duomo di Milano, 1810, Duomo di Milano, Milano	Pio Fedi, Statua della Libertà della Poesia, Statua della Libertà fiorentina’ di Santa Croce, Firenze

Anonyme, Le piédestal de la statue de la Liberté en construction à New-York, 1884, épreuve positive sur papier albuminé, Musée des arts et métiers, Fonds Bartholdi	Paul Joseph Victor Dargaud, La statue de la Liberté de Bartholdi, dans l'atelier du fondeur Gaget, rue de Chazelles, ca. 1885, Collection Musée Carnavale	Paul Joseph Victor Dargaud, The Statue of Liberty in Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi’s Studio, Paris, 1884, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California

Aerial photograph of New York Harbor, view on the Statue of Libert, Ellis Island and Manhattan	An aviator's photograph of the Statue of Liberty and Bedloe's Island, Harbor of New York	Statue of Liberty (detail of the head), Libery Island, Upper New York Bay, New York

Freedom is not a settled thing … the Statue of Liberty	Manhattan skyline seen from the Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island

The Statue of Liberty, Aerial photograph of New York Harbor and Lady Liberty	The Statue of Liberty, Aerial photograph of New York Harbor and Lady Liberty	Ellis Island, Liberty State Park and Jersey City

De Sancarlone of Kolossus van San Carlo Borromeo, Arona	The Colossus of San Carlo Borromeo ("Sancarlone"), municipality of Arona, May 1st to September 30th 1914 schedule	Schets van de binnenzijde van De Sancarlone (Kolossus van San Carlo Borromeo), Arona [2]
The raised foot and the broken chain at the feet of the Statue of Liberty

Statue Of Liberty, holding a tablet in her left hand with the date of the Declaration of Independence in Roman numerals: July 4, 1776	The iconic Lady Liberty holds a torch in her raised hand, which symbolizes enlightenment	Detail of the head and crown of the Statue of Liberty, New York City.

The raised foot of the Statue of Liberty	The broken chain at the feet of the Statue of Liberty	The raised foot of the Statue of Liberty
Antwerp, Monument for Jan Frans Loos

Jules Pecher, Monument voor Jan Frans Loos, Antwerpen, 1876

Bartholdi, Frédéric (1885). The Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World. North American Review. North American Review.

Google Arts & Culture | artsandculture.google.com

La statue de la Liberté de Bartholdi, dans l'atelier du fondeur Gaget, rue de Chazelles | www.parismuseescollections.paris.fr

Sisters in Liberty: From Florence, Italy to New York, New York | sistersinliberty.com

The exhibition “Sisters in Liberty” explores the intersection between the ideas that inspired two monumental statues of Liberty: Liberty of Poetry, by Pio Fedi in the church of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy, in 1883 and Frédéric Bartholdi’s Statue of Liberty, which was inaugurated in New York in 1886. The visitors will discover and interact with the symbols, voices and heroes of liberty and free-thinking.
A key objective of the experience is the exploration of the long-standing cultural ties between Italy and the United States through themes of art, architecture, liberty, poetry and the human condition.

Sisters in Liberty: From Florence, Italy to New York, New York

[1] Photo by William Warby, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
[2] Deze afbeelding is in het publiek domen. Onbekende auteur. Collectie National Archives at College Park - Archives II (College Park, MD), cataloged under the National Archives Identifier (NAID) 68146011.
[3] The Americans Who Saw Lady Liberty as a False Idol of Broken Promises | Smithsonian Magazine | www.smithsonianmag.com
[4] U.S. Immigration Timeline | www.history.com

The raised foot and the broken chain at the feet of the Statue of Liberty