The Statue of Liberty is the giant sculpture smack in the middle of Liberty Island in New York. This is truly a symbol of the United States. If you are a fan, you might even get a Statue of Liberty tattoo that would represent this great country. There are other people that get the tattoo to represent the USA and their others who use the tattoo as a start for something else creative. This might be something like the Statue of Liberty holding a gun or giving the middle finger.

The nice thing about getting a tattoo is that you can use an image or idea and run with it anyways you’d like. The Statue of Liberty was raised for certain reasons but nobody can tell you what it means to you. In this article, we will talk about the history of the Statue of Liberty and how the giant symbol came to be. We also want to talk about the different variations of this tattoo we have seen and the possible meaning behind it.

History of the Statue of Liberty

This statue made of copper was a gift to the people of the US from the French. The Statue of Liberty was designed by a man named Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi. However, Gustave Eiffel put the statue together and on October 28, 1886, it was dedicated.

If you’ve never seen it I would be shocked but for those that haven’t, the Statue of Liberty is a figure of a woman wearing robes. She represents Libertas who is a liberty goddess of Rome. In her right hand she is holding a torch high in the sky and her left hand is carrying a tabula ansata which has “JULY IV MDCCLXXVI” inscribed on it. This stands for July 4, 1776 which is when the Declaration of Independence was created. At her feet, a chain that is broken. This represents the freedom of coming to the United States.

So, in the building process, the Americans agreed to build the pedestal for the statue and the French were going to create the statue. At the time, however, both countries were trying to raise funds for the project. In the meantime, Richard Morris hunt oversaw designing the pedestal for the Statue of Liberty. He did so in 1884 and when he was done, he donated his fee to help fund this statue. After funding, the pedestal was completed in April of 1886. France had finished the statue in July of 1884. The statue was sent to New York Harbor via the “Isere”, which was a French frigate.