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Coming to the Parson
John Rogers (born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904)
patented 1870
- Medium
- painted plaster
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Dimensions
- 21 1/2 x 16 1/2 x 10 in. (54.5 x 42.0 x 25.4 cm)
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of John Rogers and Son
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
John Rogers sold more than eight thousand copies of the group Coming to the Parson, making it by far his most successful piece. This group was particularly favored as a wedding present. Rogers included a newspaper titled The Union, which was inspired by a newspaper he read while working as a mechanic in Manchester, New Hampshire.
