Lot 151: The Young Emigrant, and The Young Shrimper,

The Young Emigrant, and The Young Shrimper, companion figures after Edgar G Papworth Jnr, Copeland, circa 1876, the first as a child standing with a knapsack over his right shoulder, the shrimper holding a net and a shell, both with impressed frontal title, the first impressed "Copeland M76", the other "Copeland F", 51cm and 49.5cm high respectively See illustration Similar figures are illustrated in Copeland (Robert): Parian Copeland's Statuary Porcelain, pls S200 and S201, pg.194. "The Young Emigrant" in marble, was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1861 and together with its companion "The Young Shrimper", at the International Exhibition in London in 1862. The growing interest in travel and the practice of taking summer holidays by the sea may have inspired these figures.