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Coming to the Parson

John Rogers, born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904

John Rogers sold more than eight thousand copies of the group Coming to the Parson, making it by far his most successful piece. This group was particularly favored as a wedding present. Rogers included a newspaper titled The Union, which was inspired by a newspaper he read while working as a mechanic in Manchester, New Hampshire.

Date: patented 1870
Type: Sculpture
Medium: painted plaster
Department: SAAM
Institution: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Object number: saam_1882.1.9
Credit: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of John Rogers and Son

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