PETER PAN'S STATUE
The Peter Pan statue in Kensington Gardens, designed by Sir George Frampton, and set up in 1912, has been characterised as one of the most beautiful examples of fanciful sculpture in London. "Peter," says Barrie, in "The Little White Bird," "has his house on the island in the Serpentine." It was at first proposed to erect the statue on this site, where it would have been by no means easy of access. But wiser counsels prevailed, and it was placed in its present position near that piece of ornamental water. "The boy who never grew up" is shown playing upon his elfin pipe, and perched aloft on a tree-stump, round about which fairies and woodland creatures dance.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 27, 1 February 1945, Page 6
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