Taking the Oath and Drawing Rations

John Rogers, American, 1829 - 1904

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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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