The Bartholdi Statue, Bedloe's Island, New York Harbor — Presented to the United States by Citizens of France, 1886 old W Indies print charted with the patience of

charted with the patience of an astronomer who believed shadow itself was a measurable substance

19th Century — a portrait of the physician-turned-artisan who taught a young republic to print pictures from boxwood

the words themselves an act of stubborn cartographic faith

where merchants and carriages choked the avenue and Maiden Lane's jewelers and dry-goods men staked their claim to a city already convinced of its own ascendance

Soldier Field Original Design from Bella Frye

The Bartholdi Statue, Bedloe's Island, New York Harbor — Presented to the United States by Citizens of France, 1886 old W Indies print charted with the patience ofThe Bartholdi Statue, Bedloe's Island, New York Harbor Presented to the United States by Citizens of France, 1886. A commemorative lithograph of Liberty newly arrived in her harbor, copper skin still bright, the Franco American gift rendered with the civic solemnity of a republic learning how to memorialize itself. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,