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The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, within New York City. The copper -clad statue, a gift to the United States from the people of France , was designed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and its ...
The Statue of Liberty National Monument is a United States national monument comprising Liberty Island and Ellis Island in the states of New Jersey and New York. [5] It includes the 1886 Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World) by sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and the Statue of Liberty Museum, both situated on Liberty Island, as well as the former immigration station at Ellis ...
Statue of Giuseppe Garibaldi (New York City) Statue of Gouverneur K. Warren; Statue of Horace Greeley (City Hall Park) Statue of Horace Greeley (Herald Square) Statue of J. Marion Sims; Statue of James S. T. Stranahan; Statue of John Ericsson; Statue of John Watts; Statue of José Bonifácio de Andrada; Statue of Mahatma Gandhi (New York City ...
In 1991, New York City was the first to be offered the statue. Tseretali proposed erecting the statue on Roosevelt Island.However, this plan was met with concerns of its size, as it would visually dwarf the Statue of Liberty, yet be dwarfed itself by skyscrapers of the city's skyline that sat near Roosevelt Island. [4]
The Peace Fountain is a 40-foot-high (12 m) sculpture and fountain [1] [2] located next to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in the Morningside Heights section of Manhattan in New York City. It was commissioned in 1985 by Greg Wyatt , sculptor-in-residence at the cathedral.
The stonemason who sculpted a statue of the Queen for the entrance to York Minster said it was his first portrait piece. In front of hundreds of people outside the 850-year-old cathedral, the King ...
The City of New York Erects this statue to the memory of a citizen whose genius has contributed to the greatness of the republic and the progress of the world. April 26, 1893 On July 31 1803 John Ericsson was Born in Långbanshyttan Sweden Died in New York March 8 1889 [ 1 ]
Donated by French residents of New York and dedicated on September 6, 1876, the portrait statue rests on a Quincy granite pedestal. In 1991, it was conserved by the Municipal Art Society and the New York City Art Commission's joint Adopt-A-Monument Program.