A boy in theatrical Elizabethan dress releasing a hunting falcon. The original life–sized bronze sculpture was shown at the Vienna International Exhibition of 1873, no. 51. From here it was sent on for exhibition in Trieste, Italy, where it was bought by ‘The Society of Arts’ and is now in the ‘Galleria d’arte Moderne del Civico Museo Revoltella’, a city museum. A marble version with the falcon in silver electro-plating was shown at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1875, no. 88, and depicted in the ‘Illustrated London News’ of July 24th. Another version of Simonds’ masterpiece is in Central Park, New York. George Kemp (1826–1893), a wealthy merchant born in Ireland who lived in New York City, admired the plaster model for the original sculpture so much whilst on a visit to Rome in 1870 that he commissioned a colossal bronze replica for Central Park without even waiting to see the finished work.