Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi 1871, not finishing the massive sandstone statue until 1880. In 1871, he made his first trip to the United States, where he pitched the idea of a massive statue gifted from the French to the Americans in honor of the centennial of American independence. The idea, which had first been broached to him in 1865 by his friend Édouard René de Laboulaye, resulted in the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor. After years of work and fundraising, the statue was inaugurated in 1886. During this period, Bartholdi also sculpted a number of monuments for American cities, such as a
Charlotte Payne-Townshend and was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium, where her ashes were kept until Shaw's death in 1950. Their ashes were taken to Shaw's Corner, mixed and then scattered along footpaths and around the statue of Saint Joan in their garden. Charlotte Payne-Townshend was also a translator. Amongst other things she translated Eugène Brieux's play "Materrnité" for the London stage. It was put on by the Stage Society, at Daly's Theatre in 1910. Shaw Library, on the sixth floor of the Old Building, London School of Economics, was founded by and named after her. Charlotte Payne-Townshend Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend (20 January