xml/lby.00139.xml Icons of Liberty: Libertas Americana

Gibelin, Libertas Americana (1783)

Gibelin, Libertas Americana (1783). Drawing. Musée Nationale de la Coopération Franco-Américaine, Paris. Reproduced from The New York Public Library, Liberty: The French-American Statue in Art and History, Perennial Library, 1986, 79. Gibelin's drawing shows Liberty defending infant America from a Tiger representing England.

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