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When French sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi first had the idea to build a statue of a peasant woman, dressed in robes and holding up a massive torch, he originally wanted it to stand at the entrance of Suez canal with the name ‘Egypt Bringing Light to Asia’.
Nothing came of the project, but Bartholdi persevered with his idea, and was eventually commissioned to build the statue in New York Harbour. ‘Liberty Enlightening the World’ was unveiled in 1876, 7 years after the Suez canal was finished.
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