Collection Highlights
Controller handle
1904
1922.103
Silver, steel, ceramic
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Weighing The Baby
Title
Weighing The Baby
Date
1941
Medium
Plaster
Dimensions
Overall: 4 x 3 x 2 in. ( 10.2 x 7.6 x 5.1 cm )
Description
Miniature genre group
Credit Line
Purchase, Foster-Jarvis Fund
Object Number
1951.441
Bibliography
Daily Evening Transcript, Boston, Sep. 25, 1876, p. 6.
The Evening Post, New York, Nov. 9, 1876, p. 2.
New York Daily Graphic, New York, Jan. 8, 1877, p. 3.
Barck, Dorothy, "Rogers Group in the Museum of the New-York Historical Society", New-York Historical Society Quarterly, Vol. XVI, No. 3, October, 1932, p. 80.
Smith, Mrs. and Mrs. Chetwood, Rogers Groups: Thought and Wrought by John Rogers, Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed & Co., 1934, pp.84-5.
Wallace, David H., John Rogers, The People's Sculptor, Middleton, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1967, pp. 116-7, 241, 294, 300-1, 304.
Bleier, Paul and Meta, John Rogers Statuary, Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2001, pp. 158-9, 249.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
