The Statue of Liberty was designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, a French sculptor, and built by Gustave Eiffel, a French engineer, as a gift to the United States from the people of France, in honor of nearly 100 years of American liberty and freedom. Bartholdi designed the massive 150-foot statue to convey a great deal of symbolism- her crown with seven points represents and golden torch represent enlightenment across all seven seas and seven continents; her tablet justice; her flowing robes peace. The statue was shipped to the United States in 1885 and completed one year later, constructed on Bedloe’s Island, which would later become known as Liberty Island. At the base of the statue, on a bronze plaque, was engraved Emma Lazarus’ poem “The New Colossus”: