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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1924.79
People
John Rogers, American (Salem, MA 1829 - 1904 New Canaan, CT)
Title
Taking the Oath and Drawing Rations
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
1865
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/231158

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Plaster, painted grey/brown
Dimensions
57.8 x 31.8 x 22.9 cm (22 3/4 x 12 1/2 x 9 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: top of base at front: John Rogers
  • inscription: On top of base at front: New York; on front of base: Taking the Oath/and/Drawing Rations

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Ruth D. Loring.
Gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1924.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Miss Ruth D. Loring
Accession Year
1924
Object Number
1924.79
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Chetwood Smith and Mrs. Chetwood Smith, Rogers Groups, Thought and Wrought by John Rogers, Charles E. Goodspeed and Co. (Boston, MA, 1934), p. 70
  • H. Wade White, "Nineteenth Century American Sculpture at Harvard, a Glance at the Collection", Harvard Library Bulletin (Cambridge, MA, October 1970), vol. XVIII, no. 4, p. 366, pl. XV

Verification Level

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