Collection Highlights
Wig curler
1760-1775
INV.5924.77
Clay
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Katherine Rebecca Rogers (1868-1956)
Title
Katherine Rebecca Rogers (1868-1956)
Date
September 1874
Medium
Plaster
Dimensions
Overall: 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 x 3 1/8 in. ( 21.6 x 14 x 7.9 cm )
Description
Portrait bust.
Credit Line
Gift of Miss Katherine Rebecca Rogers
Object Number
1936.705
Marks
inscribed: on back: "Katie Rogers/Sep-1874"
Gallery Label
This portrait bust represents the sculptor's daughter at the age of six. At the time, he was using the child as a model for the little girl in the group, "Hide and Seek," which became one of the favorites at the Philadelphia Centennial of 1876. Rogers made numerous replicas, but it was the one he kept as his own that came to the Society many years later as a gift of the subject herself.
Bibliography
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, New Haven: Yale University Press, Vol. 2, 1974, p. 676.
Wallace, David H., John Rogers, The People's Sculptor, Middleton, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1967, p. 236.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
