Egypt Carrying the Light to Asia

Egypt Carrying the Light to Asia, also known as Progress Carrying the Light to Asia or pedestal committee; was a plan for a colossal neoclassical sculpture. Designed in the late 1860s by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, a French sculptor, the project was to be a statue of a robed female figure bearing a torch at the entryway of the Suez Canal.[1]

In the 1880s Bartholdi designed and built Liberty Enlightening the World, which became known as the Statue of Liberty, and placed it in New York Harbor in the United States.

References

  1. ↑ "The Statue of Liberty Story, From Egypt to New York | The Arab American Historical Foundation Home". www.arabamericanhistory.org. Retrieved 2017-02-22.
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