# Coming to the Parson

- By: John Rogers (born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904)
- Date: 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)
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of John Rogers and Son
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=21140)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/408bfa7d8109753a7a4ebb6f4e1aada3.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.