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The companion figure of a shepherd, model number 396, was sold by Bonhams, 5 December 2007, lot 282. Both figures are in the British Museum, illustrated by Franklin A Barrett and Arthur L Thorpe, Derby Porcelain (1971), fig.122. Another pair is in the Lady Lever Gallery, Port Sunlight. The source is an engraving by J Hogg after Francis Wheatley, published in July 1787. The model was the penultimate example of Spengler's work. See Timothy Clifford, J J Spangler, a Virtuoso Swiss Modeller at Derby, Connoisseur 198, 1978, no.196, pp.146-53