Collection Highlights
Dressing table
1795-1810
INV.14982
Mahogany, mahogany and other inlays, white pine, yellow poplar
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
Title
William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
Date
1892
Medium
Painted plaster
Dimensions
Overall: 24 1/2 x 20 x 13 3/4 in. ( 62.2 x 50.8 x 34.9 cm )
Description
Portrait bust.
Credit Line
Gift of Miss Katherine Rebecca Rogers
Object Number
1936.712
Marks
inscribed: proper right side: "Wm. C. BRYANT by JOHN ROGERS NEW YORK 1892"
Bibliography
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, New Haven: Yale University Press, Vol. 1, 1974, p. 106-8.
Wallace, David H., John Rogers, The People's Sculptor, Middleton, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1967, pp. 125, 133, 163, 209, 223, 271-2.
Holzer, Harold, and Farber, Joseph, "The Sculpture of John Rogers," Antiques Magazine, April 1979, pp. 756-68.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
