Statue of Liberty from Liberty Island
— — a copper figure that turned green in her own weather.
Not only on a wall.
“The figure on Liberty Island, designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, with an iron frame engineered by Gustave Eiffel, dedicated October 1886 as a gift from the people of France. From heel to torch she measures about 151 feet; from the ground to the tip of the torch, 305 feet. The copper skin oxidised to its green over roughly thirty years. The harbour reads her at a distance long before the boat lands. from the studio
Statue of Liberty from Liberty Island, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
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The place, in three passes.
The Statue of Liberty stands on Liberty Island in the Upper Bay of New York Harbor, about 1.6 miles southwest of Lower Manhattan. The figure was designed by the French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi; the internal iron skeleton that holds the copper skin was engineered by Gustave Eiffel. A gift from the people of France, the statue was dedicated by President Grover Cleveland on October 28, 1886. From heel to the tip of the torch she measures 151 feet; from the pedestal foundation to the torch, 305 feet.
The skin is hammered copper, about 3/32 of an inch thick, weighing roughly 62,000 pounds. When the statue was unveiled in 1886 she was the colour of a new penny. The green, called verdigris, is the natural patina that forms as copper reacts with sea air, rain, and the carbon dioxide of the harbour over decades. By around 1920 the conversion was essentially complete. The patina now protects the metal beneath; a 1980s restoration left the green intact rather than try to polish it away.
Liberty Island is reached only by Statue City Cruises from Battery Park in Manhattan or Liberty State Park in Jersey City; no private boats may dock. Ferry tickets include entry to the island and to Ellis Island. Access to the pedestal and the crown is by separate timed reservation and often books out weeks ahead; the crown climb is 162 steps from the pedestal. The island is open most of the year, with the typical first ferry around 9:00 a.m. The clearest view of the figure is from the water on the approach.