CAST FROM THE MODEL BY SIR GEORGE FRAMPTON, DATED 1925

The present charming statuette of Peter Pan, dated 1925, is a reduction of the life-size bronze exhibited by Frampton at the Royal Academy in 1911 and erected by an anonymous donor in Kensington Gardens the following year. The statue stands at the spot where, as recounted in Barrie's Little White Bird, Peter Pan lands for his nightly visits to the Gardens and where he pipes to the spirits of the children that have played there. The figure is mounted on a rock inhabited by a host of fairies, rabbits and other woodland creatures. The success of the statue was instant, amongst children and adults alike, and its popular appeal led Frampton to produce a bronze reduction of the main figure as an independent statue.