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Ice cream dish
1877-1878
1980.14
Silver
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Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)
Title
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)
Date
1887
Medium
Painted plaster
Dimensions
Overall: 29 3/4 x 16 x 12 1/2 in. ( 75.6 x 40.6 x 31.8 cm )
Description
Portrait (full-length).
Credit Line
Purchase
Object Number
1937.35
Marks
signed: proer left front corner of base: "JOHN ROGERS/NY"
inscribed: front of base: "HENRY WARD BEECHER"
Bibliography
"The Fine Arts," The Critic, New York, Vol. 7, No. 182, June 25, 1887, p. 322.
Partridge, William Ordway, "John Rogers, The Peoples Sculptor," The New England Magazine, Feb., 1896, Vol. XIII, No. 6, pp. 705-21.
Smith, Mrs. and Mrs. Chetwood, Rogers Groups: Thought and Wrought by John Rogers, Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed & Co., 1934, pp.96-7.
Wallace, David H., John Rogers, The People's Sculptor, Middleton, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1967, pp. 108, 134, 212, 216, 222, 256-7, 273, 275, 286-7, 295, 297.
Catalogue of American Portraits in The New-York Historical Society, New Haven: Yale University Press, Vol. 1, 1974, pp. 51-2.
Holzer, Harold, and Farber, Joseph, "The Sculpture of John Rogers," Antiques Magazine, April 1979, pp. 756-68.
Bleier, Paul and Meta, John Rogers Statuary, Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2001, pp. 154-5.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
