Image Not Available

Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi: Statue of Liberty

Oscar Roty (French, 1846–1911)

1886

MintParis, France

Medium/TechniqueMetal; bronze

DimensionsDiameter and weight: 69 mm (2 11/16 in.)

Credit LineGift of Horace Packard

Accession number27.291

On View

Not on view

ClassificationsNumismatics

Collections

Europe

InscriptionsObverse: Inscribed at edge "VNION·FRANCO·AMERICAINE/STATVE·COLOSSALE·DE·LA·LIBERTE·ECLAIRANT·LE MONDE/28 OCTOBRE/M.D.CCCLXXXVI". Reverse: Inscribed at edge of inset circle "AVGVSTE BARTHOLDI STATVAIRE", at edge "SOUVENIR·DE·L'INDEPENDENCE·AMERICAINE", at center "MONVMENT/ERIGÉ·PAR·LA·FRANCE/ET·L'AMERIQUE·EN·SOUVENIR/DE·LEUR·ANCIENNE·AMINÉ/1776 1876", at proper right "O.ROTY", and below "HAVTEUR·DE LA·STATVE·46'''8''" and "HAVTEVR·DV/PIÉ PESTAL·35'''".

ProvenanceBefore 1927, The Mary Hooper Packard Collection; 1927, gift of Horace Packard to the MFA. (Accession Date: May 5, 1927)