Arriving at New York Harbor, Bartholdi focused on Bedloe's Island as a site for the statue, struck by the fact that vessels arriving in New York had to sail past it.

" As well as meeting many influential New Yorkers, Bartholdi visited President Ulysses S. Grant, who assured him that it would not be difficult to obtain the site for the statue.

The son of a friend of Bartholdi's, American artist John La Farge, later maintained that Bartholdi made the first sketches for the statue during his U. S. visit at La Farge's Rhode Island studio.

Instead of the impression of violence in the Delacroix work, Bartholdi wished to give the statue a peaceful appearance and chose a torch, representing progress, for the figure to hold.

The plan of Bartholdi having been approved, more than 1, 000, 000 francs were raised by subscription throughout France for the building of the statue.

Before starting his commission, Bartholdi had traveled to the United States and personally selected New York Harbor as the site for the statue.

This statue was sculpted by Frédéric Bartholdi, who also created the Statue of Liberty.

The siege is commemorated by a huge statue, the Lion of Belfort, by Frédéric Bartholdi.

The signal was given, and Bartholdi, together with Richard Butler and David H. King Jr., whose firm built the pedestal and erected the statue, let the veil fall from her face.

* Lafayette and Washington statue ( 1900 ) by Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, an exact replica of a statue in the Place des États-Unis, Paris

In 1881 Eiffel was contacted by Auguste Bartholdi who was in need of an engineer to help him to realise the Statue of Liberty.

Bartholdi was inspired by French law professor and politician Édouard René de Laboulaye, who commented in 1865 that any monument raised to American independence would properly be a joint project of the French and American peoples.

According to sculptor Frédéric Bartholdi, who later recounted the story, Laboulaye's comment was not intended as a proposal, but it inspired Bartholdi.

Bartholdi was in any event busy with other possible projects ; in the late 1860s, he approached Ismail Pasha, Khedive of Egypt, with a plan to build a huge lighthouse in the form of an ancient Egyptian female fellah or peasant, robed and holding a torch aloft, at the northern entrance to the Suez Canal in Port Said.

Any large project was further delayed by the Franco-Prussian War, in which Bartholdi served as a major of militia.

As Bartholdi had been planning a trip to the United States, he and Laboulaye decided the time was right to discuss the idea with influential Americans.

The face was modeled after that of Charlotte Beysser Bartholdi, the sculptor's mother.

Bartholdi was initially uncertain of what to place in Liberty's left hand ; he settled on a tabula ansata, a keystone-shaped tablet used to evoke the concept of law.

Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (; 2 August 1834, Colmar, Haut-Rhin – 4 October 1904 ) was a French sculptor who is best known for designing the Statue of Liberty.

Born in Colmar, in the Alsace region of France to Jean Charles Bartholdi ( 1791 – 1836 ) and Augusta Charlotte Bartholdi Beysser ( 1801 – 1891 ), Bartholdi was the youngest of their four children, and one of only two to survive infancy, along with the oldest brother, Jean-Charles, who became a lawyer and editor.

Bartholdi was one of the French commissioners in 1876 to the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition.

In 1879, Bartholdi was awarded design patent for the Statue of Liberty.

Bartholdi was an officer himself during this period, attached to Garibaldi.

This poem was written as a donation to an auction of art and literary works conducted by the " Art Loan Fund Exhibition in Aid of the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund for the Statue of Liberty ", the aim of which was to raise money for the pedestal's construction The contribution was solicited by fundraiser William Maxwell Evarts.

Kastler was born in Guebwiller ( Alsace, German Empire ) and later attended the Lycée Bartholdi in Colmar, Alsace, and École Normale Supérieure in Paris in 1921.

The sonnet was written for and donated to an auction, conducted by the " Art Loan Fund Exhibition in Aid of the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund for the Statue of Liberty " to raise funds to build the pedestal.

The painting is contemporary with the first small scale model made by Lefebvre's fellow-Frenchman Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi | Frédéric Bartholdi for what became the Statue of Liberty, striking a similar pose, though fully clothed.

* 1834 – Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor, designed the Statue of Liberty ( d. 1904 )

* Statue of Liberty The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, designed by Frédéric Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886.

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, designed by Frédéric Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886.

** Statue of Liberty, a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, designed by Frédéric Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886

The Bartholdl Fountain, the work of Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, the same sculptor who designed the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor stood in a central site in the gardens, however, it was placed in storage for several years to make way for the memorial to General Meade, the hero of Gettysburg.

It is named for the Bartholdi Fountain in the garden's center designed by Frédéric Bartholdi.

Chaumont AB is located not far from the workshops of Frédéric Bartholdi – the French architect which designed the Statue of Liberty.

Many other monumental statues of Vercingetorix were erected in France during the 19th century, including one by Bartholdi on the Place de Jaude in Clermont-Ferrand ( see first image ).

Among its members were Laboulaye, Paul de Rémusat, William Waddington, Henri Martin, Ferdinand Marie de Lesseps, Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, Oscar Gilbert Lafayette, and Bartholdi.

Later he demonstrated wireless telephony in Washington, D. C. on March 20, 1902, where voice and music transmissions were made over a third of a mile from the steamer Bartholdi to shore.

The work for which Bartholdi is most famous is Liberty Enlightening the World, better known as the Statue of Liberty.

In 2004, Bartholdi & Gue demonstrated that this shape is indeed ideal for facilities with 150 doors or less.

At Rome Cornelius participated, with other members of his fraternity, in the decoration of the Casa Bartholdi and the Villa Massimi, and where thus employed he was also engaged upon designs for the illustration of the Nibelungenlied.

* Frédéric Bartholdi ( 1834-1904 ), a sculptor best known for the Statue of Liberty

Smith became a contractor in New York City and did much work for the federal government, including the stone ice-breaker at Bridgeport, Connecticut, the jetties at the mouth of the Connecticut River, the foundation for the Bartholdi Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, the Race Rock Lighthouse ( southwest of Fishers Island, New York ) and many life-saving stations.