Trade catalogs of statuary, 1791-1913.

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A. Da Prato & Company. Trade catalogs of statuary, 1791-1913.

Title

Trade catalogs of statuary, 1791-1913.

Resource Link

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122508401

Abstract

Trade catalogs, pamphlets, and booklets of statues, reproductions, vases, sculpture, reliefs, crosses, birdbaths, marble and granite, and other ephemera relating to statuary.

Extent

21 items (1 box) : ill.

Holding Repository

University of California, Santa Barbara, UCSB Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6741362

University of California, Santa Barbara, UCSB Library

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Boston Sculpture Company.

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P.P. Caproni & Brother.

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Bailey Company

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Rogers, John, 1829-1904

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John Rogers (1829-1904) was born in Salem, Mass., and received his education in the Boston public schools. While employed in various jobs he began to model in clay during his leisure hours and in 1858-1859 spent time in Rome studying methods of reproducing clay groups in plaster form. On his return, he went to Chicago where he exhibited, for a charity fair, "The Checker Players," a group in clay that attracted much favorable attention. During the Civil War, he modeled small statuette groups, mos...