i£x ICtbrtfi SEYMOUR DURST When you leave, please leave this book Because it has been said "Sver'thing comes t' him who waits Except a loaned book." mm LIBERTY Enlightening the World. Photo=Gravures From negatives and drawings made by permission of the American Committee. Copyright, 1895, by A. Wittemann, 15 Laight St., New York THE ALBERTYPE CO N Y. Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library Gift of Seymour B. Durst Old York Library "Liberty Enlightening the World." DIMENSIONS OF THE STATUE. Height from base to torch ,151 1 Foundation of pedestal to torch, . . 3°5 6 Heel to top of head, . in 6 Length of hand, . . 16 5 Index Finger, ... 80 Circumference at second joint, .... 76 Size of finger nail 13 x 10 in. Head from chin to cran- ium, .... 17 3 Head thickness from ear to ear, .... Distance across the eye, Length of nose, Right arm, length Right arm, greatest thick- ness, .... Thickness cf waist, . Width of mouth, . Tablet, length, Tablet, width, Tablet, thickness, DIMENSIONS OF THE PEDESTAL. Square sides at top, each, Grecian col's, above base, Height of pedestal, . 89 Square sides at base, each 62 DIMENSIONS OF THE FOUNDATION. ft. Height of foundation 65 Square sides at botton 91 Square sides at top 66 DATES IN THE HISTORY OF THE STATUE. O 6 6 o o o o 7 7 o IN'. O 8 IN. o o 7 [881 French-American Union . 1874 Work on arm began . . 1875 Arm and torch finished . 1S76 Placed on exhibition, Phila- delphia 1876 Bedloes Island ceded by Congress 1877 Face and head completed . 1878 Entire statue finished, July 7 1880 The statue weighs 450.000 pounds or 225 tons. The bronze alone weighs 200,000 pounds. Forty persons can stand comfortably in the head, and the torch will hold twelve people. The total number of steps in the temporary staircase, which leads from the base of the foundation to the top of the torch, is 403 From the ground to the top of the pedestal, iqs steps 'J he number of steps in the statue, from the pedestal to the head, is 154. and the ladder leading up through the extended right arm to the torch has 54 rounds HEIGHTS OF CELEBRATED STATUES. Mounted in Paris, October Ground broken for pedes- tal, April Foundation completed, April Pedestal completed . . . First rivet driven on statue July 12 Statue completed, Oct. 28 1883 1885 1886 1886 1886 Liberty 151 Nero, about . . . .118 Colossus of Rhodes . 108 Arminius, in Westphalia, 92 Borromeo at Lake Maggi- ore 66 Memnon 62 Jupiter Olympus ... 43 Frederick August Bartholdi THE career of M. Bartholdi, the most distinguished living sculptor of colossal statuary, bears testimony to the genius and unselfish industry which fashioned the Monument of Liberty. Born at Colmar in 1833, like some of his predecessors in the plastic art, he started life as a painter. Though apprenticed to the famous Ary Scheffer, M. Bartholdi, following a natural bent, soon turned his attention to sculpture, and produced, at the early age of 19, a notable bas-relief of Francesca da Rimini. From that time forward his fame has grown with the years. Like the battle painters de Neuville and Detaille, M. Bartholdi became in- spired by the bloody Franco-German conflict, and produced in 1878 the Lion of Belfort, a colossal monument to the heroism of a beleaguered garrison, carved in the solid rock. A plaster cast of this great work, together with his statue " Gribeauval," now the property of the French nation, were, in 1878, among the chief attractions of the Paris Salon. The Government bestowed on the sculptor the Cross of the Legion of Honor, and at the Centennial Exhibition he was awarded the medal for sculpture for a remarkable exhibit of an early but powerful work termed " Genius in the Grasp of Misery," and the later productions, ''Peace," and " The Young Vine Grower," all in bronze. Among his other important works may be named, " Vercingetorix, " the old Gallic patriot, the graceful statue of " Lafayette," now standing in Union Square, New York, and three tributes to his native town, a fountain dedicated in 1863 to the memory of Martin Schongauer, the painter, a statue of Admiral Brouat, and one of General Rapp. In the face of great difficulties, M. Bartholdi had, for over ten years, struggled manfully to see his gigantic work erected on the threshold of the new world. And it may be well here to state that his labor has been, from the outset a labor of love and not of profit. For strange though it may seem, the sculptor has derived no pecuniary benefit from his arduous task. In a recent letter to the writer, he declares that for long years he has made many serious sacrifices of time and money, in consummating this great life- purpose. But, if the burden has been hard to bear, he has found his reward. In consecrating a tribute to Liberty, he has fashioned the eighth wonder of the world. The Statue of Liberty. The Head. The Hand and Torch. I Night Scen Sectional View of Statue, Showing Spiral Stairway and Ladder to Torch. * r View from the Head. Frederic August Bartholdi.