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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. [1] Barrie's stories were inspired in part by ...
West of the Long Water, Kensington Gardens: 1912: George Frampton — Statue Grade II* Unveiled in secret on May Day 1912. The character's creator, J. M. Barrie, commissioned the sculpture and chose the site, which is Peter's landing point in the book Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Questions were raised in Parliament about the propriety of an ...
Peter and Wendy or Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens is a novel by J. M. Barrie, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, and published by Hodder & Stoughton in late November or early December 1906; it is one of four major literary works by Barrie featuring the widely known literary character he created, Peter Pan.
The Albert Memorial, directly north of the Royal Albert Hall in Kensington Gardens, London, was commissioned by Queen Victoria in memory of her beloved husband Prince Albert, who died in 1861. Designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott in the Gothic Revival style, it takes the form of an ornate canopy or pavilion 176 feet (54 m) tall, in the style of ...
Kensington Gardens, once the private gardens of Kensington Palace, are among the Royal Parks of London. The gardens are shared by the City of Westminster and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and sit immediately to the west of Hyde Park, in western central London known as the West End. The gardens cover an area of 107 hectares (265 ...
Frampton's original statue of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, London, was commissioned by J.M. Barrie in 1912. Barrie was said to be disappointed at Frampton's depiction of Peter Pan, in particular at his choice of model for the figure of the boy. [19] However such was the popularity of the statue, six more casts were made which are now ...
The Memorial to the Great Exhibition is an outdoor monument commemorating the Great Exhibition (1851) and depicting Albert, Prince Consort, designed by Joseph Durham with modifications by Sydney Smirke and located south of Royal Albert Hall in London, United Kingdom. Originally installed in the Royal Horticultural Society gardens in 1863, it ...
Kensington Gardens, London. Coordinates. 51°30′26.99″N 0°10′23.31″W. / 51.5074972°N 0.1731417°W / 51.5074972; -0.1731417. The Arch 1979–1980 (LH 503c) [ 1] is a large stone sculpture by Henry Moore located in Kensington Gardens, London. [ 2] It was given to the park by Moore in 1980.