A rare pair of Staffordshire figures Lady Hester Stanhope,riding a camel with Dr Meryon by their side, English circa 1860, Book reference ,'Victorian Staffordshire Figures 1835-1875' Book 1 by A.& N. Harding, page 378, figure 1458., Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope (12 March 1776 ? 23 June 1839) was a British adventurer, writer, antiquarian, and one of the most famous travellers of her age. Her excavation of Ascalon in 1815 is considered the first to use modern archaeological principles, and her use of a medieval Italian document is described as "one of the earliest uses of textual sources by field archaeologists" Her letters and memoirs made her famous as an explorer., 26 cm high 16 cm wide