The statue of Peter Pan is a 1912 bronze sculpture of J. M. Barrie's
character Peter Pan. It was commissioned by Barrie and made by Sir
George Frampton. The original statue is displayed in Kensington
Gardens in London, to the west of The Long Water, close to Barrie's
former home on Bayswater Road. Barrie's stories were inspired in part
by the gardens: the statue is located at the place where Peter Pan
lands in Barrie's 1902 book The Little White Bird after flying out of
his nursery. Six other casts made by the original artist have been
erected in other locations around the world.The sculpture stands about
14 feet (4.3 m) high. It has a tall conical form, like a tree stump,
topped by a young boy, approximately life size for an eight year old,
blowing a thin musical instrument like a trumpet or flute, sometimes
interpreted as pan pipes. The sides of the stump are decorated with
small figures of squirrels, rabbits, mice, and fairies. Barrie had
intended the boy to be based on a photograph of Michael Llewelyn
Davies wearing a Peter Pan costume, but Frampton chose another model,
possibly James W. Shaw or William A. Harwood. Barrie was disappointed
by the results, claiming the statue "didn't show the Devil in Peter".A
completed plaster model of the work was exhibited at the Royal Academy
in May 1911. Barrie had the original bronze erected in London on 30
April 1912, without fanfare and without permission, so that it might
appear to children that the fairies had put it in place overnight. He
published a notice in The Times newspaper the following day, 1 May:
"There is a surprise in store for the children who go to Kensington
Gardens to feed the ducks in the Serpentine this morning. Down by the
little bay on the south-western side of the tail of the Serpentine
they will find a May-day gift by Mr J.M. Barrie, a figure of Peter Pan
blowing his pipe on the stump of a tree, with fairies and mice and
squirrels all around. It is the work of Sir George Frampton, and the
bronze figure of the boy who would never grow up is delightfully
conceived."He donated the sculpture to the city of London, although
some critics objected to him advertising his works by erecting a
sculpture in a public park without permission. In 1928 vandals tarred
and feathered the sculpture. It became a Grade II* listed building in
1970. Royal Parks replaced the plinth in 2019, which caused some
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