AN UNBIASED VIEW OF ORLINSKI STYLE FIGURINE

Bartholdi's early versions were being all identical in concept: a woman figure in neoclassical style symbolizing liberty, putting on a stola and pella (gown and cloak, widespread in depictions of Roman goddesses) and Keeping a torch aloft. According to popular accounts, the facial area was modeled after that of Augusta Charlotte Beysser Bartholdi,