I was told that the statue of liberity was originally designed to be put in Egypt in celebration of the opening of the Suez Canal , and that funding prevented that from happeneing .
However, when I searched online I found nothing about that .Would someone care to clarify the truth for me ?
2006-09-16 12:51:28 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Is it possible Drslowpok to give me ur sources ?
2006-09-16 13:25:03 · update #1
Sculptor Frederic Bartholdi had designed a giant statue for the Mediterranean end of the Suez Canal before he began work on the Statue of Liberty. The Suez statue was never built. Bartholdi denied that the Statue of Liberty was a re-working of the Suez design, although they were quite similar. As Marvin Trachtenberg says in the book referenced below, they were both "colossal, robed, torch-bearing females as lighthouses, sited at key points astride major waterways..." (p. 54). In the Suez design, shown in Trachtenberg (pp. 52-53), the statue is holding the torch in her left hand (opposite to the Statue of Liberty).
2006-09-17 10:48:21 · answer #1 · answered by Grouchy Dude 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is true, sort of. The sculptor came up with his idea, and tried to get them to use it for the Suez canal. That didn't work out, so he tried it again with other customers. Eventually, France decided to have it made as a gift to the US. It changed somewhat since the original concept. You can see the models for building them, and read about the history in the base of the statue.
2006-09-16 12:54:15 · answer #2 · answered by drslowpoke 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
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2016-11-27 19:25:24 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know, but there is a miniature Statue of Liberty in the middle of the Susquehanna River. You can see it from the road if you look. I think it is in a place called Marysville or near Duncannon. It is right before you hit Enola going S. in PA. (This would be somewhere near Harrisburg, I think) Somewhere near the Rockville Bridge.
2006-09-16 16:24:43 · answer #4 · answered by mabell1025 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is wrong information. The Statue of Liberty was given to us as a gift from the French citizens in recognition of our independence
2006-09-16 14:28:46 · answer #5 · answered by katlvr125 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope, made for us by some nice Frenchmen. Just for us, because of our taking in the poor, etc.. I believe there are still some nice French people out there, too, but I guess I'm in the minority....
2006-09-16 12:53:52 · answer #6 · answered by merlin_steele 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Uh, no....the statue was definitely a gift to the U.S. from France. Whoever told you otherwise doesn't know his/her history.
2006-09-16 13:51:34 · answer #7 · answered by chrstnwrtr 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it was designed as a gift for america. that's wishful thinking for whoever thought of it. that it was a gift for egypt.
2006-09-16 13:02:44 · answer #8 · answered by ♦cat 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It was a gift to the US by the french.
2006-09-16 12:53:39 · answer #9 · answered by absens_heros 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Whoever told you that was wrong.
2006-09-16 12:52:57 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋