7075941 The Great Bartholdi Statue, Liberty Enlightening the World, The Gift of France to the American People, c.1885 (chromolithograph) by Currier, N. (1813-88) and Ives, J.M. (1824-95); Private Collection; (add.info.: A colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States. The copper statue, designed by Fr矇d矇ric Auguste Bartholdi, a French sculptor, and dedicated on October 28, 1886, 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: a welcoming signal to immigrants arriving from abroad.).