An Unusual Little Jockey

Stock No: 001715

Height: 5.75 Inches / 14 cm

Reference: Harding Book 1, Page 347, Fig 1310 (Similar)

A fine and well-modelled figure of a woman, possibly an unrecorded adaptation of Maria Foote as Arinette in ‘The Little Jockey’. She is standing on a circular gilt lined base, wearing a jockey’s cap, jacket, waistcoat, jodhpurs, and riding boots, a dead bird at her feet, she holds a rifle in her left hand, her right is raised holding a gunpowder flask. The source of the Little Jockey figure is a coloured theatrical portrait print, published by Orlando Hodgson, entitled ‘Miss Foote as the Little Jockey‘. This example may be based on a different scene from the play. The figure dates to c1830-35. The figure has been professionally and invisibly repaired.