A bronze statuette of Edward, The Black Prince on horseback in chain mail and armour wearing a crown, his right hand raised in victory, his left holding the reins.

This statuette of Edward, Prince of Wales, the Black Prince, is a reduction of a monumental equestrian statue that Prince Albert had intended to commission in 1861 as a companion to Marochetti's equestrian statue of Richard I, Coeur de Lion, erected in October 1860 outside the Houses of Parliament in Westminster. Upon Prince Albert's early death in December 1861 the project was left without its main patron and was put to an end.

Edward the Black Prince displays a more solemn pose than that of the heroic Richard I Coeur de Lion. The Black Prince is shown with his right hand raised aloft, wearing a coronet over his helmet and equipped with medieval armour with a tabard on top, emblazoned with the arms of England and France in low relief. A great military leader, the Black Prince became popular in his lifetime for his victories over the French. Like Richard I Coeur de Lion, he was attractive for Victorians who had a fascination for medieval subjects and in particular for heroic British figures who had become symbols of national identity .

Queen Victoria purchased the statuette for £15 in 1868 shortly after the death of the artist. She presented it to her son Edward, the Prince of Wales.