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, perhaps George Goss or William A. The sides of the stump are decorated with small figures of squirrels, rabbits, mice, and fairies. It has a tall conical form, like a tree stump, topped by a young boy, about life size for an eight-year-old, blowing a thin musical instrument like a trumpet or flute, sometimes interpreted as pan pipes. The sculpture stands about 14 feet (4.3 m) high. Six other casts made by Frampton have been erected in other places around the world. Barrie's stories were inspired in part by the gardens: the statue is at the place where Peter Pan lands in Barrie's 1902 book The Little White Bird after flying out of his nursery. 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. It was commissioned by Barrie and made by Sir George Frampton. The statue of Peter Pan is a 1912 bronze sculpture of J.
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