Declaration of Independence. A broken shackle and chain lie at her feet as she walks forward, commemorating the recent national abolition of slavery. After its dedication, the statue became an icon of freedom and of the United States, seen as a symbol of welcome to immigrants arriving by sea. Bartholdi was inspired by a French law professor and politician, Édouard René de Laboulaye, who is said to have commented in 1865 that any monument raised to U.S. independence would properly be a joint project of the French and U.S. peoples. The Franco-Prussian War delayed progress until 1875, when Laboulaye proposed that the French finance the statue and the U.S.
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Statue of Liberty
Statue of Liberty | Introduction
There is an inscription on the left hand of the statue that reads "tabula ansata", the date of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. On the 'tabula ansata" carried by the statue , the date of the U.S. Declaration of Independence is inscribed. There are several plaques and dedicatory tablets on or near the Statue of Liberty Yes, she holds a torch above her head with her right hand, and in her left hand carries a "tabula ansata" inscribed, the date of the U.S. Declaration of Independence.
when did we get the statue of liverty
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The statue was dedicated on October 28, 1886.
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who built it?
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Gustave Eiffel
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when?
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October 28, 1886
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where?
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Sorry. I cannot find the answer based on the context.
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who designed it?
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A French sculptor "Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi".
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what does it symbolize?
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It symbolises freedom and is seen as a welcome sign to immigrants arriving by sea.
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where is the statue located?
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is It is situated in Upper New York Bay on Liberty Island.
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how can you access it?
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By ferries which depart from Liberty State Park in Jersey City and the Battery in Lower Manhattan.
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how were funds raised to build it?
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A large number of money-raising events were organized. As part of one such effort, an auction of art and manuscripts, poet Emma Lazarus was asked to donate an original work.
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are there any inscriptions on it?
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Fundraising in the US for the pedestal had begun in 1882. The committee organized a large number of money-raising events. As part of one such effort, an auction of art and manuscripts, poet Emma Lazarus was asked to donate an original work. She initially declined, stating she could not write a poem about a statue. At the time, she was also involved in aiding refugees to New York who had fled anti-Semitic pogroms in eastern Europe. These refugees were forced to live in conditions that the wealthy Lazarus had never experienced. She saw a way to express her empathy for these refugees in terms of the statue.
Statue of Liberty | Fundraising
Flanked on the sides are two smaller triangular plaques which depict the female figures of History and Eternity. The Scribe of History, alternatively known as Epic Poetry, is writing on a tablet and Eternity both contemplates and is identified by a fern. The monument was dedicated on May 31, 1897, in ceremony conducted by the Grand Army of the Republic and an oration given by the Governor of Rhode Island, Elisha Dyer, Jr.. The statue is in height, and is mounted on a granite base high and wide.
Liberty Arming the Patriot | History and design
Emma Lazarus (July 22, 1849 – November 19, 1887) was an American author of poetry, prose, and translations, as well as an activist for Jewish causes. She wrote the sonnet "The New Colossus" in 1883. Its lines appear inscribed on a bronze plaque, installed in 1903, on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. The last lines of the sonnet were set to music by Irving Berlin as the song "Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor" for the 1949 musical "Miss Liberty", which was based on the sculpting of the Statue of Liberty ("Liberty Enlightening the World"). The latter part of the sonnet was also set by Lee Hoiby in his song "The Lady of the Harbor" written in 1985 as part of his song cycle "Three Women".
Emma Lazarus | Introduction
The resulting sonnet, "The New Colossus", including the iconic lines: "Give me your tired, your poor/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free", is uniquely identified with the Statue of Liberty and is inscribed on a plaque in its museum. Even with these efforts, fundraising lagged. Grover Cleveland, the governor of New York, vetoed a bill to provide $50,000 for the statue project in 1884. An attempt the next year to have Congress provide $100,000, sufficient to complete the project, also failed. The New York committee, with only $3,000 in the bank, suspended work on the pedestal. With the project in jeopardy, groups from other American cities, including Boston and Philadelphia, offered to pay the full cost of erecting the statue in return for relocating it.
Statue of Liberty | Fundraising
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" to raise money for the pedestal's construction. Lazarus's contribution was solicited by fundraiser William Maxwell Evarts. Initially she refused but writer Constance Cary Harrison convinced her that the statue would be of great significance to immigrants sailing into the harbor. "The New Colossus" was the first entry read at the exhibit's opening on November 2, 1883. It remained associated with the exhibit through a published catalog until the exhibit closed after the pedestal was fully funded in August 1885, but was forgotten and played no role at the opening of the statue in 1886.
The New Colossus | History of the poem
“The irony is that the statue goes on speaking, even when the tide turns against immigration — even against immigrants themselves, as they adjust to their American lives. You can’t think of the statue without hearing the words Emma Lazarus gave her.”
Emma Lazarus | Death and legacy
The inscriptions are carved in granite on plaques at the middle section of the base. TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN FROM A GRATEFUL PEOPLE I DO ORDER AND DECLARE THAT ALL PERSONS HELD AS SLAVES WITHIN THE STATES IN REBELLION ARE AND HENCE-FORTH SHALL BE FREE LET US HERE HIGHLY RESOLVE THAT THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE BY THE PEOPLE AND FOR THE PEOPLE SHALL NOT PERISH FROM THIS EARTH WITH MALICE TOWARD NONE WITH CHARITY TOWARD ALL WITH FIRMNESS IN THE RIGHT AS GOD GIVES US TO SEE THE RIGHT, LET US FINISH THE WORK WE ARE IN
Lincoln Monument (Philadelphia) | Inscriptions
A globe, ink well, and books are depicted on the desk. The words "In memory of Emma Hart Willard Who Wrote at Middlebury in 1818 the Magna Carta for Higher Education of Women in America" are carved above the relief. On the opposite side of the memorial, the carved inscription reads, "Education Should Seek To Bring Its Subjects to the Perfection of their Moral, Intellectual and Physical Nature, in order that they May be of the Greatest Possible Use to Themselves and Others 1787 - Emma Hart Willard 1870". The relief is unsigned.
Emma Willard Memorial | Description
There are several plaques and dedicatory tablets on or near the Statue of Liberty. A group of statues stands at the western end of the island, honoring those closely associated with the Statue of Liberty. Two Americans—Pulitzer and Lazarus—and three Frenchmen—Bartholdi, Eiffel, and Laboulaye—are depicted. They are the work of Maryland sculptor Phillip Ratner.
Statue of Liberty | Inscriptions, plaques, and dedications
"The New Colossus" is a sonnet by American poet Emma Lazarus (1849–1887). She wrote the poem in 1883 to raise money for the construction of a pedestal for the Statue of Liberty ("Liberty Enlightening the World"). In 1903, the poem was cast onto a bronze plaque and mounted inside the pedestal's lower level.
The New Colossus | Introduction
It was, however, published in Joseph Pulitzer's "New York World" as well as "The New York Times" during this time period. In 1901, Lazarus's friend Georgina Schuyler began an effort to memorialize Lazarus and her poem, which succeeded in 1903 when a plaque bearing the text of the poem was put on the inner wall of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. On the plaque hanging inside the Statue of Liberty, the line "Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!" is missing a comma, and reads in Lazarus's manuscript "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" since its unveiling in 1903.
The New Colossus | History of the poem
A stamp featuring the Statue of Liberty and Lazarus' poem, "The New Colossus", was issued by Antigua and Barbuda in 1985. In 1992, she was named as a Women's History Month Honoree by the National Women's History Project. Lazarus was honored by the Office of the Manhattan Borough President in March 2008, and her home on West 10th Street was included on a map of Women's Rights Historic Sites. In 2009, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. The Museum of Jewish Heritage featured an exhibition about Lazarus in 2012. Biographer Esther Schor praised Lazarus’ lasting contribution.
Emma Lazarus | Death and legacy
The text of the inscription on the monument was carved in two lines. The monument is a rare example of a preserved dedicatory epigram, with its statue and base, from the late archaic period. Only 35% of the original text is visible due to the destruction. The text on the column is below (the brackets indicate text which is missing because of the destruction and has been restored by Catharine Keesling):
Nike of Callimachus | Inscription
They then arranged for and oversaw the installation of a large, engraved memorial marker of Barre Granite just inside the cemetery gates, inscribed "An American Patriot". A memorial bronze marker with an American flag was installed by Robert S. Whitman, marking the dedicated space for the American patriot.
Haym Salomon | Legacy
The monument has several inscriptions. One of the rear of the base reads, "SMITH GRANITE CO. / WESTERLY, RI". Additionally, a plaque on the back of the base reads: "THE BEST DEFENCE OF FREE / AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS IS / THE HEARTS OF THE AMERICAN / PEOPLE THEMSELVES." / "ONE WITH GOD IS A MAJORITY" / "I KNOW OF NO RIGHTS OF RACE / SUPERIOR TO THE RIGHTS OF / HUMANITY." A plaque on one of the sides of the base reads: "I KNOW OF NO SOIL BETTER / ADAPTED TO THE GROWTH OF / REFORM THAN AMERICAN SOIL / I KNOW OF NO COUNTRY.
Statue of Frederick Douglass (Rochester, New York) | Inscriptions
The circular hedges and pool are supported by a trellis that curves around the back of the memorial. Underneath the trellis are three walls with inscriptions that are high, which include the following quotes: "This was George Mason, a man of the first order of wisdom among those who acted on the theatre of the revolution, of expansive mind, profound judgment, cogent in argument... Thomas Jefferson, 1821" "Regarding slavery... that slow poison, which is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant. Practiced in acts of despotism and cruelty, we become callous to the dictates of humanity, and all the finer feelings of the soul.
George Mason Memorial | Inscriptions
A kindergarten class in Davenport, Iowa, mailed the "World" a gift of $1.35. As the donations flooded in, the committee resumed work on the pedestal.
Statue of Liberty | Fundraising
The monument bears an inscription reading in part, "He fought for Humanity, Liberty and Democracy, lighted the way for his countrymen and showed all men how to dare nobly and to die gloriously." In his final letter, found among his effects, McConnell wrote: "My burial is of no import. Make it as easy as possible on yourselves. I have no religion and do not care for any service. If the omission would embarrass you, I presume I could stand the performance.
James Rogers McConnell | Death
The inscription is from a poem entitled "Apparitions" by Thomas Curtis Clark (1877-1953), a prolific Christian hymn writer and poet. Who goes there, in the night, Across the storm-swept plain? We are the ghosts of a valiant war — A million murdered men! Who goes there, at the dawn, Across the sun-swept plain? We are the hosts of those who swear: It shall not be again!
Massachusetts Peace Statue | Symbolism
L'AMERIQUE QUI N'AVAIT JAMAIS OUBLIE LA FAYETTE A TRAVERSE LES MERS POUR AIDER LA FRANCE ET LE MONDE A ETE SAUVE R. POINCARE (Base, west side:) LA FAYETTE IMMORTAL BECAUSE A SELF-FORGETFUL SERVANT OF JUSTICE AND HUMANITY BELOVED BY ALL AMERICANS BECAUSE HE ACKNOWLEDGED NO DUTY MORE SACRED THAN TO FIGHT FOR THE FREEDOM OF HIS FELLOW-MEN. WOODROW WILSON. signed Founder's mark appears.
Lafayette Monument | Introduction
The following inscription was added in 1932: In 1974, the city government added an adjacent marker, which stated: When the monument was moved in 1993, some of the original inscriptions were removed, and replaced with new inscriptions that state in part:
Battle of Liberty Place Monument | Inscriptions
The inscriptions read: (Front of shield held by figure of the Republic:) (Base, above the Republic's head:) (Base, below bust:) The Fairmount Park Art Association plaque appears on the lower front of the sculpture's base.
James Garfield Memorial, Philadelphia | Inscription
/ WHERE THE CONDITIONS FOR / EFFECTING GREAT CHANGES / IN THE SETTLED ORDER OF / THINGS, FOR THE DEVELOPMENT / OF RIGHT IDEAS OF LIBERTY / AND HUMANITY ARE MORE / FAVORABLE THAN HERE IN / THESE UNITED STATES." / EXTRACT FROM SPEECH ON / DRED SCOTT DECISION, DELIVERED / IN NEW YORK, MAY 1857". Another on the opposite side reads: "MEN DO NOT LIVE BY BREAD/ALONE; SO WITH NATIONS, THEY / ARE NOT SAVED BY ART, BUT BY / HONESTY; NOT BY THE GILDED / SPLENDORS OF WEALTH BUT BY / THE HIDDEN TREASURE OF / MANLY VIRTUE; NOT BY THE / MULTITUDINOUS GRATIFICATION / OF THE FLESH, BUT BY / THE CELESTIAL GUIDANCE / OF THE SPIRIT." / EXTRACT FROM THE SPEECH ON / THE WEST INDIA EMANCIPATION, / DELIVERED AT CANADAIGUA, N.Y.
Statue of Frederick Douglass (Rochester, New York) | Inscriptions
The sculpture sits upon a rectangular granite base (H. 72 in. x 92 in.). The sculpture is signed: I. HAVARD THOMAS FECIT MDCCCXCIV CAST Á CIRE PERDVE H.H. MARTYN & Co. Ltd. Cheltenham 1922. The front (east) side of the base is inscribed with: BVRKE 1729–1797 "MAGNANIMITY IN POLITICS IS NOT SELDOM THE TRVEST WISDOM" The west side of the base is inscribed with: THIS STATVE A COPY OF THE WORK OF HAVARD THOMAS IN THE CITY OF BRISTOL ENGLAND WAS PRESENT- ED THROVGH THE SVL- GRAVE INSTITVTION TO THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA BY SIR CHARLES CHEERS WAKEFIELD BARONET FORMERLY LORD MAYOR OF LONDON ERECTED A.D.
Edmund Burke (Thomas) | About the Washington DC statue
She was buried in German Waldheim Cemetery (now named Forest Home Cemetery) in Forest Park, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago, near the graves of those executed after the Haymarket affair. The bas relief on her grave marker was created by sculptor Jo Davidson, and the stone includes the quote "Liberty will not descend to a people, a people must raise themselves to liberty".
Emma Goldman | Death
The Statue of Liberty is a world-famous symbol of freedom, given in 1886 by France to the United States in celebration of American Independence. Nearby Ellis Island was the first stop for millions of immigrants to the U.S. in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The national monument recalls this period of massive immigration to the United States. Inside the statue, a plaque is engraved with words from "The New Colossus", an 1883 poem by Emma Lazarus:
Statue of Liberty National Monument | Significance
A statue was created for Logan Circle, Philadelphia in 1926, designed by Alexander Stirling Calder. It does not depict Shakespeare himself, but rather the figures of Touchstone the jester from "As You Like It", representing comedy, and Hamlet, representing tragedy. Touchstone is lounging with his head tilted laughing, his feet hanging over the top of the tall stone pedestal and his left arm resting on Hamlet's legs. Hamlet is seated, brooding, his knife dangling over Touchstone's body. The opening lines of the famous All the world's a stage speech from "As You Like It" are inscribed on the pedestal beneath the figures.
Memorials to William Shakespeare | North America
(Sculpture, Lower proper left side): (Sculpture, Lower proper right side): (Granite base, front): SAMUEL D. GROSS American Physicians have erected this statue to commemorate great deeds of a man who made such an impress on American surgery that it has served to dignify American Medicine 1897
Samuel Gross (Calder) | Inscriptions
The slab is partly broken and the whole right corner of it is lost. It is dated to the late 5th or early 6th century AD. The inscription is kept at Rockefeller Museum.
Epitaph of Samuel | Introduction
The donor's inscription is in the crossbar of the triangular entablature. It is, despite the dedication of the fountain for illiterate people, written in Latin. ACCIPE POSTERITAS HAEC QVAE MONUMENTA PARAVIT ALBERTVS PRINCEPS CIVIBUS IPSE SUIS QVOS AMAT EX ANIMO CUSTOS AMBITOR HONESTI (honestus?) CVPIT) VTQVAE VICES REDDANT SEMPER AMORE CVPIT DIVO KAROLO V CAESARE SEMP(ER): AVGUST(US) POST VICTORIA(M) GALLICAM REGE IPSO AD TICINV(M) SVPERATO(R) AC CAPTO TRIVMPHANTE: FATALIQ(ve?) RVSTICOR (S)VPER GERMANIA CONSPIRATIONE PROSTRATA ALBER(T) CARD(INAL) ET ARCHIEP:(ISCOPUS) MOG(VNTIAE) FONTE(M) HUNC VETVSTATE DILAPSV(S) AD CIVI(B)US V(S)ORUM POSTERITASQVE VSUM RESTITVI CVRAVIT
Marktbrunnen (Mainz) | Donators inscription
"Tabulae ansatae" have been used by modern artists from as early as the 15th century, as shown on the tomb of Charles, Count of Maine, attributed to Francesco Laurana, in Le Mans Cathedral. The Statue of Liberty by sculptor Auguste Bartholdi is holding one such tablet on which "July 4th 1776" is inscribed using Roman numerals.
Tabula ansata | Modern era
The granite stele carries a bronze plaque inscribed with 70 names and a quote from the Gospel of John 15:13. "Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends."
Flushing Fields | Introduction
The inscription on the back of the memorial reads:
Harriet Tubman Memorial (Boston) | Introduction
The inscription read: (On rear proper left side of sculpture:) inv et(?) mod. W. H. Rinehart Rom (On rear proper right side of sculpture:) FERD. VON MILLER (...inscription illegible) MUNCHEN 188(?) (On scroll in figure's right hand:) THE CONSTITUTION (On plaque on front of granite base:) ROGER B. TANEY OF MARYLAND CHIEF JUSTICE signed Founder's mark appears
Roger B. Taney (sculpture) | Inscription
The base of the statue is inscribed on three sides. The front reads: ALEXANDER HAMILTON FIRST SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY
Statue of Alexander Hamilton (Washington, D.C.) | Inscriptions
The plaque on the statue reads:
George Tirebiter | Statue
McKim chose to have monumental inscriptions, similar to those found on basilicas and monuments in ancient Rome, in the entablature on each of the main building's three façades. On the south is inscribed: ""; on the east: ""; and on the north: "". The last quotation has been attributed to the library's Board of Trustees. Another inscription, above the keystone of the central entrance, proclaims: "". Below each second-story arched window on the three façades are inscribed lists of the names of great historical writers, artists, scientists, philosophers, and statesmen. A document created in 1939 by Frank N. Jones provides a comprehensive list: https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1680001075 Across Dartmouth Street from the central entrance is a twentieth-century monument to the Lebanese-born poet and philosopher Kahlil Gibran who as a young immigrant educated himself in the Boston Public Library.
Boston Public Library, McKim Building | Monumental inscriptions
In her opening address, Susan B. Anthony remarked: This is the first time in history that a statue has been erected in memory of a woman who accomplished patriotic deeds... This recognition of the assistance rendered by a woman in the discovery of this great section of the country is but the beginning of what is due...
Eva Emery Dye | Suffrage
The CD's title track The New Colossus is based on a sonnet of the same name by Emma Lazarus the final lines of which were engraved on a bronze plaque in the pedestal of The Statue of Liberty in 1912.
MacTalla Mor | Introduction
To try to promote this has been my humble but earnest endeavour and until they are more generally aroused the legislature is useless, for it is the people who make the laws. W.L.B.C
William Lisle Blenkinsopp Coulson | Memorial statue
The monument includes a verse epitaph in Latin, of the so-called "Quisquis" variety, (i.e. "Whoever...") consisting of four lines, two lines on each plate. The rhyming inscription and a literal translation is as follows: Translated literally line by line as:
Sir Giles Daubeney | Inscription
The sculpture is considered Mullins' principal work. Beneath the pediment is the inscription "To Literature, Arts and Science". There are further inscriptions along the sides, and on the lantern tower a quotation in Ancient Greek from Pericles' Funeral Oration. Supporting the pediment are six Ionic fluted columns leading down to a raised portico overlooking the Flag Market.
Harris Museum | Exterior
Egg-and-dart motif along with garland and ribbons decorate the sculpture. The sculpture sits on a triangle plot surrounded by a fence. Fire hydrants sit at each of the three corners of the base. The sculpture is signed on the base, south side: CH. ROUSSEAU. Sculptor. The west side of the base is inscribed:
Benjamin C. Grenup Monument | Description
The front of the plinth is inscribed . On the back of the plinth are inscribed the words . Under the western relief, inscribed in the granite plinth is the text, .
Statue of Robert Burns (Milwaukee) | Inscriptions
THE GRATEFUL CITY HAS BUILT THIS MONUMENT, THAT THEIR EXAMPLE MAY SPEAK TO COMING GENERATIONS
Charles William Eliot | Inscriptions composed by Charles W. Eliot
Text is written in a cursive font on both sides of the slab. The inscription on the front reads: Came to these hills in 1833 seven of us DeLacompt Ezra Kind G.W. Wood T. Brown R. Kent Wm. King Indian Crow All dead but me, Ezra Kind. Killed by [Indians] beyond the high hill. Got our gold June 1834. The inscription continues on the back and reads: Got all the gold we could carry. Our ponies all got by the Indians. I have lost my gun and nothing to eat and Indians hunting me.
Thoen Stone | Inscription
The interior of the memorial has a tall, bronze statue of Jefferson by the sculptor Rudulph Evans. The statue was added four years after the dedication. Most prominent are the words which are inscribed in a frieze below the dome: "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." This sentence is taken from a letter written by Jefferson on September 23, 1800, to Dr. Benjamin Rush wherein he defends the constitutional refusal to recognize a state religion. On the panel of the southwest interior wall are excerpts from the Declaration of Independence, written in 1776: We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men.
Jefferson Memorial | Interior
The granite fountain is divided into a centre part with memorial inscription, gargoyles and two flanking fountain troughs. The memorial inscription reads:
William Pryer Monument | Description
The monument's inscription responds to the McKim building reading "", an excerpt from a letter enclosed with Gibran's generous bequest to the library.
Boston Public Library, McKim Building | Monumental inscriptions
Robert Emmet is a bronze statue of Robert Emmet by Jerome Connor. There are four examples: Massachusetts Avenue and 24th Street, N.W. Washington, D.C.; St Stephen's Green, Dublin; Golden Gate Park, San Francisco; Emmetsburg, Iowa. The San Francisco example was dedicated on July 20, 1919. The Washington example was cast in 1916, and was dedicated on June 28, 1917. It was rededicated on April 22, 1966. The statue was a gift to the Smithsonian Institution on loan to the National Park Service. The inscription reads: (On right side of bronze base of sculpture:) JEROME CONNOR 1916 (Front of stone base:) Robert Emmet Irish Patriot 1778–1803 "Lidia-saon-eine" (On plaque, back of base:) "I WISHED TO PROCURE FOR MY COUNTRY THE GUARANTEE WHICH WASHINGTON PROCURED FOR AMERICA I HAVE PARTED FROM EVERYTHING THAT WAS DEAR TO ME IN THIS LIFE FOR MY COUNTRY'S CAUSE WHEN MY COUNTRY TAKES HER PLACE AMONG THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH, THEN, AND NOT TILL THEN LET MY EPITAPH BE WRITTEN" Extracts from Emmet's speech from the dock September 19, 1803
Robert Emmet (Connor) | Introduction
The Latin inscription was translated as follows:
George Peard | Death and monument
The judges rejected her offering and selected Thomas Ball's sculpture for the Boston Public Garden. Both the Sumners and the Whitneys were disappointed, but Whitney wrote in a letter, "Bury your grievance; it will take more than the Boston Art committee to quench me." She exhibited the model of Sumner at the Centennial Exposition of 1876. Following an 1879 exhibit of the model, the "New York Evening Post" stated of the judge's decision, "Think of a woman bringing her mind to bear on the legs of a man-even if those legs were inside a pair of stone trousers! "New York Evening Telegram" wrote a verse which starts out: "You see, ’tis a fixed law of art, my friend, / That only a man can superintend / The play of muscle and post of limb, / Whenever a statue is made of him." The verse later states "Yet under the dome of the Capitol / Stands Samuel Adams erect and tall, / As free as his namesake before the fall; / And though the image was carved by woman / Rarely is marble so grandly human." Among her well-known public monuments is the statue of Samuel Adams (1876) in the National Statuary Hall Collection in the US Capitol, Washington, D.C..
Anne Whitney | Monuments
The inscription reads: SOLON H. BORGLUM ROMAN BRONZE WORKS N.Y.
Statue of Jacob Leisler | Detail
Beneath the figure is engraved an epitaph in Latin and a poem in English. The epitaph reads: The first line translates as "A Pylian in judgement, a Socrates in genius, a Maro in art," comparing Shakespeare to Nestor the wise King of Pylos, to the Greek philosopher Socrates, and to the Roman poet Virgil (whose last name, or "cognomen" was Maro). The second reads "The earth buries him, the people mourn him, Olympus possesses him," referring to Mount Olympus, the home of the Greek gods. The English poem reads:
Shakespeare's funerary monument | Inscriptions
The inscriptions read: (Sculpture, bronze base, back proper right side of figure:) W.STORY.ROMA FOND.NELLI.ROMA. (Plinth, bronze plaque on back:) THIS STATUE PRESENTED TO THE CITY OF BALTIMORE APRIL 7, 1890 BY ROBERT GARRETT 1847–1896 PRESIDENT OF BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD 1884–1887. A signed Founder's mark appears.
George Peabody (sculpture) | Inscriptions
The statue is tall and situated on a high granite pedestal, upon which is an inscription: "Erected by the loyal citizens of Bellevue to their patriotic sons who served in the World War. They loved peace, but dared to fight".
Andrew Bayne Memorial Library | World War I memorial
An inscription of the plinth's side edge reads; and its back edge bears the inscription; . The front of the base reads: .
Statue of Harvey W. Scott | Description
The plaque is affixed to the base with four large bolts on each corner of the inscription. There are no visible foundry marks. The memorial was surveyed in October 1992 as part of the Save Outdoor Sculpture project, in conjunction with the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture. The monument's condition at that time was described as well maintained.
Abraham Lincoln (relief by Schwarz) | Description
The public unveiling of the statue by Noble's granddaughter Elizabeth Roberts, was preceded by a parade through Anniston.
Samuel Noble Monument | Introduction
The obverse of the Statue of Liberty dollar, designed by John Mercanti, features the Statue of Liberty in front of the main building of Ellis Island. The reverse, also designed by Mercanti but with assistance from Matthew Peloso, features the statue's torch and a quote from Emma Lazarus' poem "The New Colossus".
Statue of Liberty commemorative coins | Dollar
Paul Auster wrote that "Bartholdi's gigantic effigy was originally intended as a monument to the principles of international republicanism, but 'The New Colossus' reinvented the statue's purpose, turning Liberty into a welcoming mother, a symbol of hope to the outcasts and downtrodden of the world." John T. Cunningham wrote that "The Statue of Liberty was not conceived and sculpted as a symbol of immigration, but it quickly became so as immigrant ships passed under the torch and the shining face, heading toward Ellis Island. However, it was [Lazarus's poem] that permanently stamped on Miss Liberty the role of unofficial greeter of incoming immigrants." The poem has entered the political realm.
The New Colossus | Immigration to the United States
The main inscription on the pedestal reads: And on the opposite face is a later inscription:
Grey's Monument | Inscription
Several years after the main structure of the memorial was built, a bronze plaque was inlaid into the cobblestones a few feet away. Etched with a quote from German-Jewish author Heinrich Heine's play Almansor (1820), it features the chilling message: That was but a prelude; where they burn books,
The Empty Library | Plaque
These words were initially left off, and added in 1924 at the request of the National Council of Women. The face of the granite block behind the statue of Cavell bears the inscription "Humanity", and higher up, below the Virgin and Child, "For King and Country". Other faces of the block bear the inscriptions, "Devotion", "Fortitude", and "Sacrifice". On the rear face of the block is a carving of a lion crushing a serpent, and higher up, the inscription, "Faithful until death".
Edith Cavell Memorial | Description
Her gaze is directed forwards and her features are idealized, like the other female figures of the sculpture group with the exception of "Justice". In her proper left hand, she carries a round palette held down at her side, and in her proper right hand, a paintbrush held in front of her at waist height. She stands with her weight on both feet, with her proper right foot extended slightly forward of her proper left. There are several dots of an unknown black substance on the marble base underneath her feet, in front of her proper left foot. There is no discernible foundry mark or signature, but the statue is identified by the black label attached to the cement pedestal underneath her feet, which reads "ART" in gold lettering.
Values of Civilization (Doyle) | "Art"
The monument, commissioned by Thomas Anson, was built sometime between 1748 and 1756. The outer form of the monument is a portico featuring two doric columns. These support an entablature decorated by a frieze comprising three metopes depicting laurel wreaths, and two containing carvings of stone heads. One head shows a smiling bald-headed man; the other bears a likeness to the goat-horned Greek god Pan. The entablature is topped with an antefix using an anthemion design. Inside the portico is a rusticated arch, which frames a relief fashioned by the Flemish sculptor Peter Scheemakers. The relief is a copy of the Poussin painting "Et in arcadia ego" and shows a woman and three men, two of whom are pointing to a tomb.
Shugborough inscription | Monument
They stand in front of a narrow granite wall. The lower right side of the sculpture is signed: J. E. FRASER The lower left side of the sculpture is marked: Kunst-Foundry N.Y. The back of the granite base is inscribed:
Frederick Keep Monument | Description
The sculpture was destroyed by fire in 1896 and the sculptor was commissioned to produce a smaller version, the Statue of the Republic, a gilded bronze sculpture that was erected in 1918 and still stands.
Edith Minturn Stokes | Philanthropy and artistic muse
The association with immigration only became stronger when an immigrant processing station was opened on nearby Ellis Island. This view was consistent with Lazarus's vision in her sonnet—she described the statue as "Mother of Exiles"—but her work had become obscure. In 1903, the sonnet was engraved on a plaque that was affixed to the base of the statue. Oral histories of immigrants record their feelings of exhilaration on first viewing the Statue of Liberty. One immigrant who arrived from Greece recalled:
Statue of Liberty | Lighthouse Board and War Department (1886–1933)
The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; ) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor within New York City, in the United States. The copper statue, a gift from the people of France to the people of the United States, was designed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and its metal framework was built by Gustave Eiffel. The statue was dedicated on October 28, 1886. The statue is a figure of Libertas, a robed Roman liberty goddess. She holds a torch above her head with her right hand, and in her left hand carries a "tabula ansata" inscribed (July 4, 1776 in Roman numerals), the date of the U.S.
Statue of Liberty | Introduction
The sculpture depicts two golden feet with wings spread out.
Athea | Monuments
The bronze statue is elevated on a granite base; it features a Winged Victory from Classical mythology standing, with wings displayed, behind a United States soldier, a sailor, a Marine, and an American Red Cross nurse, all of whom appear to be marching towards the east. The Winged Victory motif was a popular theme for World War I monuments of the era, though the inclusion of a Red Cross nurse makes the Olympia statue more complex than most. Each of the four sides of the statue's granite base is inscribed. On the east side, which is inlaid with a bronze representation of the Seal of the State of Washington, the inscription reads: On the north side is a Biblical quotation from John 15, verse 13: On the west side:
Winged Victory (Lewis) | Design
The inscription, "To preserve the jewel of liberty in the framework of Freedom" is a quotation from the writings of Abraham Lincoln.
Old Calton Burial Ground | Scottish-American Soldiers Monument
The monument is 5.7 metres tall and built in reddish granite. A short flight of stairs leads up the monument, which is backed by a low wall. The wider base has an arched opening with a spring flowing from a small pipe. The monument is topped by a sandstone urn. Just below the urn is a white marble plaque with the name EMILIA'S KILDE ("Emily's Spring") in capital lettering. Further down on the monument is another white marble plaque with a short poem in carved lettering that has almost disappeared. It reads:
Emiliekilde | Description
Commissioned in February 1929 and dedicated in June 1930, the statue depicts Thompson wearing academic robes and holding a scroll. Fundraising for the memorial began in 1923, and $13,000 had been raised by 1926. The sculpture is approximately tall and has a diameter of , . It rests on a New Hampshire granite base with multiple inscriptions.
Statue of William Oxley Thompson | Description and history
It is a Grade II listed structure. The memorial consists of a double life size bronze portrait bust of Coulson on a concrete and stone pedestal which in turn stands on a pink granite base with drinking troughs - one for cattle and horses and the other for dogs - at the front and back. The bronze bust was sculpted by and cast by the Rudier Foundry in France. The pedestal is inscribed on the front: "William Lisle Blenkinsopp Coulson, 1841–1911. Erected by public subscription in memory of his efforts to assist the weak and defenceless among mankind and in the animal world." On the back of the pedestal is inscribed a quotation from Coulson:What is really needed is an all round education in the higher impulses, true manliness and womanliness, justice and pity.
William Lisle Blenkinsopp Coulson | Memorial statue
The markers existing on the monument today are the replicas of their genuines. The Monument of Liberty was saved from oblivion with a complete restoration and opened to public just 104 years after it was built on 11 December 2012.
Uzunköprü | The Monument of Liberty (Liberty Fountain)
A 1784 engraving by Robert Pollard depicting Lady Harriet Acland on the Hudson River is inscribed as follows:
Lady Harriet Acland | American War of Independence
The inscription of the monument quotes the Gospel of John, Verse 9:4: ""We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work.""
Ludwig Susen | Work and legacy
"Liberty" is wrapped in a mantle, and gathers its folds at waist height in her proper left hand. Her proper right arm is extended towards the ground and positioned close to her body. Her proper right hand holds a long sword, the point of which rests on the base in between her feet. "Liberty" wears a Phrygian cap atop her hair, which is tied back at the base of her neck. One thick lock of hair falls down the middle of her back, while another is swept forward onto her proper right shoulder. The statue stands on a large square cement base which holds a black plaque that reads "LIBERTY" in gold letters.
Values of Civilization (Doyle) | "Liberty"
Robert Morris is a bronze statue by Paul Wayland Bartlett commemorating American Revolution financier and statesman Robert Morris. It is located at Independence Hall, on 4th Street and Walnut Street, Philadelphia. It was dedicated on June 18, 1926, at the Second Bank of the United States on Chestnut Street, but was relocated in 1961. The inscription reads:
Robert Morris (Bartlett) | Introduction
Some families request that an inscription be made on the portion of the memorial that will be underground. In addition, some gravestones also bear epitaphs in praise of the deceased or quotations from religious texts, such as ""requiescat in pace"". In a few instances the inscription is in the form of a plea, admonishment, testament of faith, claim to fame or even a curse—William Shakespeare's inscription famously declares Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear, To dig the dust enclosèd here. Blest be the man that spares these stones, And cursed be he that moves my bones.
Headstone | Inscriptions
Declaration of Independence. A broken shackle and chain lie at her feet as she walks forward, commemorating the recent national abolition of slavery. After its dedication, the statue became an icon of freedom and of the United States, seen as a symbol of welcome to immigrants arriving by sea. Bartholdi was inspired by a French law professor and politician, Édouard René de Laboulaye, who is said to have commented in 1865 that any monument raised to U.S. independence would properly be a joint project of the French and U.S. peoples. The Franco-Prussian War delayed progress until 1875, when Laboulaye proposed that the French finance the statue and the U.S.
Statue of Liberty | Introduction
The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation requires potential honorees to pay a fee for inscription. By 2019, the wall was mostly full and only five panels remained to be inscribed.
Ellis Island | Museum and Wall of Honor
Set at the top of a steep hillock, the monument itself is taller than Nelson's Column in London, and topped by a bronze female figure, originally gilded, carrying a cap of liberty on a pole. In other images, she took the seated form already very familiar from the British copper coinage, where Britannia had first appeared in 1672, with shield but carrying the cap on a rod as a liberty pole, rather than her usual trident.
Liberty (personification) | Early modern period
At the base of the statue are inscriptions explaining the significance of the discovery of the use of ether as an anesthetic. There are four inscriptions, which include biblical quotations from and :
Ether Monument | Inscriptions
The inscriptions on the Portland stone pedestal were carved by David Kindersley.
Statue of the Viscount Slim, London | Inscriptions
Among her other contributions to American literature, Constance Cary Harrison persuaded her friend Emma Lazarus to donate a poem to the fundraising effort to pay for a pedestal for the Statue of Liberty. In 1871, the Harrisons first visited Bar Harbor, Mount Desert Island, Maine, staying at the cottage of Captain Royal George Higgins. Sometime in the 1880s, they commissioned Arthur Rotch of the architectural firm Rotch & Tilden to build a seaside cottage called "Sea Urchins", with a garden designed by Beatrix Farrand. The property now is owned by the College of the Atlantic, transformed into Deering Common, student center.
Constance Cary Harrison | After the war
The sculpture's proper right foot is raised slightly at the heel, and she stands with the majority of her weight on her proper left foot. This sculpture, like the other seven, is carved from Italian Carrara marble, and sits upon a cement pedestal. Approximately three feet below the base of the statue is a black plaque, upon which is the word "HISTORY" in gold lettering.
Values of Civilization (Doyle) | "History"
There is the following inscription on his tombstone;
John Quilliam | Memorial
The replica of the Statue of Liberty ("Liberty Enlightening the World") is an allegorical representation of Liberty. The female figure is shown wearing a crown and robes, and holding a torch and a book or tablet. The metal sculpture measures approximately 7 ft. 4 in. x 1 ft. 10 in. x 1 ft. 10 in., and rests on a pedestal and octagonal concrete base that measures approximately 5 ft. 4 in. x 3 ft. 2 in. x 2 ft. 8 in. A plaque on the base has the inscription: WITH THE FAITH AND COURAGE OF / THEIR FOREFATHERS WHO MADE / POSSIBLE THE FREEDOM OF THESE / UNITED STATES / THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA / DEDICATE THIS REPLICA OF THE / STATUE OF LIBERTY AS A PLEDGE / OF EVERLASTING FIDELITY / AND LOYALTY / 40TH ANNIVERSARY CRUSADE TO / STRENGTHEN THE ARM OF LIBERTY / 1950.
Statue of Liberty (Oklahoma City) | Description
On the east face of the monument a panel is inscribed: The panel on the north face is inscribed
Disraeli Monument | Inscription
Committees to raise money to pay for the foundation and pedestal were formed in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia. The New York group eventually took on most of the responsibility for American fundraising and is often referred to as the "American Committee". One of its members was 19-year-old Theodore Roosevelt, the future governor of New York and president of the United States. On March 3, 1877, on his final full day in office, President Grant signed a joint resolution that authorized the President to accept the statue when it was presented by France and to select a site for it.
Statue of Liberty | Announcement and early work
Plans to plant trees there had to be scrapped because there were too many underground utilities. The Boston Redevelopment Authority ultimately placed a small bronze plaque in the sidewalk across the street from the bas relief plaque. The plaque bears the inscription "SONS OF LIBERTY, 1766; INDEPENDENCE of their COUNTRY, 1776."
Liberty Tree | Memorials
He designed a massive, Doric column in granite. It is surmounted by a statue symbolic of liberty and towers more than above the hill and the war ruins of the village around it.
Meuse-Argonne American Memorial | Introduction
The inscription reads: "the gift of George Armour, Esq, of Chicago US, a native of this town, 1881"
George Armour | Fountain
This statue is a depiction of "Oratory" carved out of marble. The tall marble statue sits on a large cement base with a plaque that reads "ORATORY". The sculpture is a man in Roman robes. He is holding his right hand out in a declamatory gesture and he is gathering his robes in his left hand.
Values of Civilization (Doyle) | "Oratory"
The sculpture cost $75,000, which was raised by popular subscription. The Lincoln Association of Jersey City commissioned Fraser to design and build the park memorial, which was dedicated on June 14, 1930. The association was also influential in the renaming of West Side Park for President Abraham Lincoln. The inscription reads: (On sculpture near base, raised letters:) J. E. FRASER. SCULPTOR (copyright symbol) 1929 (Around base:) MDCCCLXV . MDCCCIX (Around base, incised letters:) ABRAHAM LINCOLN S. Kunst FDRY NYC signed Founder's mark appears. The wall behind the sculpture bears the inscription: WITH MALICE TOWARD NONE AND CHARITY FOR ALL. On one side of wall: THAT GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE SHALL NOT PERISH FROM THE EARTH.
Lincoln the Mystic | History
The National Memorial Arch is inscribed in many locations. On the front of the memorial is a quote from George Washington's letter to Governor George Clinton while at Valley Forge. "Naked and starving as they are" "We cannot enough admire"
National Memorial Arch | Inscriptions
More than fifty women's groups with delegates from every state were represented at the dedication ceremony in 1921 that was presided over by Jane Addams. After the ceremony, the statue was moved temporarily to the Capitol crypt, where it stood for less than a month until Johnson discovered that an inscription stenciled in gold lettering on the back of the monument had been removed. The inscription read, in part: "Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen declares herself an entity to be reckoned. Spiritually, the woman movement... represents the emancipation of womanhood. The release of the feminine principal in humanity, the moral integration of human evolution come to rescue torn and struggling humanity from its savage self." Congress denied passage of several bills to move the statue, whose place in the crypt also held brooms and mops.
Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution | Commemorations