The new statue, being loaned by a Paris museum to cement Franco-American friendship, are going to be a scaled-down replica of the first and can stay in Washinton DC, where it'll stay for ten years as a logo of Franco-American friendship.
France is sending what it calls the "little sister" of the famous Statue of Liberty in ny , which the country once sent as a present to the us . The new statue, being loaned by a Paris museum to cement Franco-American friendship, are going to be a scaled-down replica of the first and can first be displayed on Ellis Island , later moving on to Washinton DC, where it'll stay for ten years, reported press agency Reuters earlier last week.
The 'second' Statue of Liberty, because it is being called, is currently on its way from Paris to ny City, retracing the steps of its "big sister", a huge neoclassical sculpture that now stands guard on Liberty Island in ny Harbor, within the ny City. The new statue is predicted to arrive before the Fourth of July, Independence Day within the us .
The new replica of the Statue of Liberty measures 2.83 meters (or 9.3 feet) tall . it had been gently lifted off its plinth on the rear of a crane by workers in Paris fortnight ago and situated on the rear of a truck, covered with film for cover and wedged in with foam blocks. it had been then embarked upon a ship, its destination being the us of America.
The replica was designed in 1878 by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, an equivalent one that - with help from engineer Gustave Eiffel - created the larger version now in ny . The larger version of the Statue of Liberty was given by France to the us as a present , and was completed and assembled in 1886.
