Overall: 37cm (14.5in) x 39cm (15.5in) x 14cm (5.5in)
Patinated bronze. Model of the eponymous fox hunter Mr Jorrocks, cast from a model by Charles Augustus H. Lutyens and published by A.L. Collie, London 1891. Signed and dated in the maquette ‘C. Lutyens ’90’. Stamped with the title ‘JORROCKS’ and production details ‘Published by Arthur Leslie Collie, 39B Old Bond Street, London, May 6 1891’.
The literary creation of the County Durham huntsman and author R.S. Surtees (1805-1864), Mr John Jorrocks, is the good natured 19th century cockney grocer whose every waking hour is filled with thoughts of hunting. He declared “I'm a sportsman all over, and to the backbone. ‘Unting is all that's worth living for - all time is lost wot is not spent in 'unting - it is like the hair we breath …" Surtee’s literary works include ‘Jorrock's Jaunts and Jollities’ (1838), ‘Handley Cross’ (1843) and ‘Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour’.