Taking the Oath and Drawing Rations

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

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