Taking the Oath and Drawing Rations
John Rogers, American, 1829 - 1904
1866
Painted plaster
Overall: 23 1/4 × 11 13/16 × 7 7/8 in. (59 × 30 × 20 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
S.X.993.17.4
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Sculpture
Research Area
Sculpture
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, on top of base, center: JOHN ROGERS / NEW YORK; inscribed, front of base, center: TAKING THE OATH / AND / DRAWING RATIONS; inscribed, back of base, center: PATENTED / JAN 30 1866
Course History
ITAL 2, Introductory Italian II, Scott Milspaugh, Fall 2013
ITAL 2, Introductory Italian II, Jonathan Mullins, Winter 2014
ITAL 2, Introductory Italian II, Scott Millspaugh, Winter 2014
ENGL 29, American Fiction to 1900, Colleen Boggs, Spring 2014
Exhibition History
A Space for Dialogue 43, "Bringing the Thing Home" The Aftermath of the War Between the States in Consumer-Driven Art, Virginia F. Deaton, Class of 2009, Homma Family Intern, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 18-April 13, 2008.
American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 9-December 9, 2007.
American Art, Colonial to Modern, Israel Sack Gallery and Rush Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26, 2019-September 12, 2021.
The American Scene: Views of Everyday Life, 1840-1890, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, ArtH50, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 27-September 6, 1998.
Publication History
Barbara J. MacAdam, American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Muesum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 115, no. 88.
Virginia F. Deanton, A Space for Dialogue 43, "Bringing the Thing Home" The Aftermath of the War Between the States in Consumer-Driven Art, Hanover, New Hampshire: Dartmouth College, 2008, ill. p. 3.
Provenance
Source unknown.
Catalogue Raisonne
D. H. Wallace, John Rogers: The People's Sculptor, 1967, no. 108.
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