Mark Wallinger - A Footnote to Liberty
Lithograph, 300gsm Somerset Velvet,
58.42 x 43.18 cm / (23 x 17 in)
Edition 24/25
The text of A Footnote to Liberty is the sonnet Emma Lazarus wrote in 1883 and donated to the auction, "Art Loan Fund Exhibition in Aid of the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund for the Statue of Liberty" to raise money for the plinth. (The original manuscript entitled "Sonnets” is numbered "1" before the title The New Colossus.) The text has been on a bronze plaque in the pedestal since 1903.
The footnote reads:
1. The New Colossus. Not like the brazen giant Greek fame, / With conquering limbs astride from land to land;/ Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand / A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame/ Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name / Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand / Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command / The air-bridged harbour that twin cities frame./ “Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she / With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, / The wretched refuse of your teeming shore./ Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, / I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
Lithograph, 300gsm Somerset Velvet,
58.42 x 43.18 cm / (23 x 17 in)
Edition 24/25
The text of A Footnote to Liberty is the sonnet Emma Lazarus wrote in 1883 and donated to the auction, "Art Loan Fund Exhibition in Aid of the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund for the Statue of Liberty" to raise money for the plinth. (The original manuscript entitled "Sonnets” is numbered "1" before the title The New Colossus.) The text has been on a bronze plaque in the pedestal since 1903.
The footnote reads:
1. The New Colossus. Not like the brazen giant Greek fame, / With conquering limbs astride from land to land;/ Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand / A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame/ Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name / Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand / Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command / The air-bridged harbour that twin cities frame./ “Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she / With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, / The wretched refuse of your teeming shore./ Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, / I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
Lithograph, 300gsm Somerset Velvet,
58.42 x 43.18 cm / (23 x 17 in)
Edition 24/25
The text of A Footnote to Liberty is the sonnet Emma Lazarus wrote in 1883 and donated to the auction, "Art Loan Fund Exhibition in Aid of the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund for the Statue of Liberty" to raise money for the plinth. (The original manuscript entitled "Sonnets” is numbered "1" before the title The New Colossus.) The text has been on a bronze plaque in the pedestal since 1903.
The footnote reads:
1. The New Colossus. Not like the brazen giant Greek fame, / With conquering limbs astride from land to land;/ Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand / A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame/ Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name / Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand / Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command / The air-bridged harbour that twin cities frame./ “Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she / With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, / The wretched refuse of your teeming shore./ Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, / I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
