liberty statue

The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World is a colossal  sculpture on Liberty Island in the middle of New York Harbor, in Manhattan, New York City. The statue, designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886, was a gift to the United States from the people of France. The statue is of a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, who bears a torch and a tabula ansata (a tablet evoking the law) upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. A broken chain lies at her feet. The statue is an icon of freedom and of the United States: a welcoming signal to immigrants arriving from abroad.
Bartholdi was inspired by French law professor and politician Édouard René de Laboulaye, who commented in 1865 that any monument raised to American independence would properly be a joint project of the French and American peoples. Due to the troubled political situation in France, work on the statue did not commence until the early 1870s. In 1875, Laboulaye proposed that the French finance the statue and the Americans provide the site and build the pedestal. Bartholdi completed the head and the torch-bearing arm before the statue was fully designed, and these pieces were exhibited for publicity at international expositions.
And just for you to know that the Liberty statue in New York is not the only one theres three other liberty statue in France, Luxemburg and Japan
And the designer of Liberty statue and Eiffel tower in rance are the same person: Gustave Eiffel and the first model of Liberty Statue is made in 1876 in Luxemburg.

  Liberty statue in France

          Liberty statue in Luxemburg

  Liberty Statue in Japan