# The Elder's Daughter

- By: John Rogers (born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=21144)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/25920f7ee69d9d499a3bd169d8d987c1.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.