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, a gift to the United States from the people of France, is of a robed female figure representing
Libertas, the
Roman goddess of freedom, who bears a torch and a
tabula ansata upon which is inscribed the date of the
American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. A broken chain lies at her feet. The statue has become an icon of freedom and of the United States.
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