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The Elder's Daughter
John Rogers (born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904)
patented 1877
- Medium
- painted plaster
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Dimensions
- 21 x 19 1/2 x 10 5/8 in. (53.2 x 49.5 x 27.1 cm)
- Culture
- United States
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
John Rogers modeled many groups that included his favorite animal, the horse. To depict the horse accurately, he measured many different breeds, took casts from anatomical specimens, and studied photographs of horses in motion. In Elder’s Daughter, the horse carries a Puritan and his daughter home from church. The elder glares at the young man, who has committed sacrilege by offering his daughter an apple on the Sabbath.
