Peter Pan
Blowing his pipe at the end of the day!
'Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens'
A novel by J. M. Barrie, published in 1906, featuring the character he originated, Peter Pan. It tells the story of how Peter left his family as an infant, became a friend of fairies!
Barrie began thinking about a Peter Pan statue in 1906. He took a series of photographs of the six-year-old Michael Llewelyn Davies wearing a special Peter Pan costume. This was Barrie's ideal vision of Peter Pan that he planned to give to a prospective sculptor. Six years later, in 1912, Barrie paid Sir George Frampton to create the statue. In the story, the boy flies out of his nursery and lands beside the Long Water lake – on the spot where the statue actually stands.
The Peter Pan bronze sculpture in Kensington Gardens is one of the most popular statues across London. The sculpture quickly achieved iconic status and soon all images of Peter Pan looked like the Kensington Gardens version. Copies were made from Frampton’s mould and there are now Peter Pan statues in Egmont Park in Brussels (1924); Bowring Park in St. John’s (Newfoundland, Canada, 1925); Queen’s Gardens in Perth (Australia, 1927); Liverpool (1928; originally in Sefton Park); Glenn Gould Park in Toronto (Canada, 1929); and in Rutgers University in Camden (New Jersey, USA).
More: historiayculturab2010.blogspot.com/2010/04/peter-pan-stat...
Peter Pan
Blowing his pipe at the end of the day!
'Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens'
A novel by J. M. Barrie, published in 1906, featuring the character he originated, Peter Pan. It tells the story of how Peter left his family as an infant, became a friend of fairies!
Barrie began thinking about a Peter Pan statue in 1906. He took a series of photographs of the six-year-old Michael Llewelyn Davies wearing a special Peter Pan costume. This was Barrie's ideal vision of Peter Pan that he planned to give to a prospective sculptor. Six years later, in 1912, Barrie paid Sir George Frampton to create the statue. In the story, the boy flies out of his nursery and lands beside the Long Water lake – on the spot where the statue actually stands.
The Peter Pan bronze sculpture in Kensington Gardens is one of the most popular statues across London. The sculpture quickly achieved iconic status and soon all images of Peter Pan looked like the Kensington Gardens version. Copies were made from Frampton’s mould and there are now Peter Pan statues in Egmont Park in Brussels (1924); Bowring Park in St. John’s (Newfoundland, Canada, 1925); Queen’s Gardens in Perth (Australia, 1927); Liverpool (1928; originally in Sefton Park); Glenn Gould Park in Toronto (Canada, 1929); and in Rutgers University in Camden (New Jersey, USA).
More: historiayculturab2010.blogspot.com/2010/04/peter-pan-stat...