![]() It was inaugurated on October 28 in 1886 by then President Grover Cleveland. The statue was carved in France in July 1884 and arrived in New York in June 1885. The financing for the pedestal was completed in August 1885 and its construction was finished in April 1886. The granite pedestal of the statue was designed in 1884 by American architect Richard Morris Hunt. However, others believe the statue’s face better resembles Bartholdi’s brother. It is widely believed that Bartholdi modelled the statue after his mother. The statue represents Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom. Laboulaye was of the view that by recalling the achievements of the United States, people in his country will be inspired to create their own democracy. Ten years later, French sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi was assigned the task to design a sculpture with 1876 as a deadline to commemorate the 100 years of America’s Independence. In 1865, when France was divided between two groups with one supporting monarchy and other supporting Enlightenment ideals, French political thinker and US Constitution expert Edouard de Laboulaye proposed that a monument be built as a gift from Paris to America in order to commemorate the perseverance of freedom and democracy and to honour late president Abraham Lincoln. The statue is made of an inner framework of iron and a copper exterior. ![]() A broken chain lies at her feet as she walks ahead. In her left hand, she carries a tabula ansata inscribed in Roman numerals with “JULY IV MDCCLXXVI” (July 4, 1776) - the date of the US Declaration of Independence. She holds a torch in her right hand above her head. The Statue of Liberty is a figure of a robed woman representing Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom. It was built by French civil engineer Gustave Eiffel. Joseph Pulitzer, a newspaper publisher, ran a crowd-funding campaign and raised more than $100,000 to help construct the statue. ![]() ![]() West Bengal Panchayat Elections 2023: Date, schedule, results – All you need to know ![]()
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