"The Charity Patient" Yale University Art Gallery

Patented December 4, 1866

Medium: Painted plaster
Dimensions: 22 1/4 × 12 × 8 1/4 in. (56.5 × 30.5 × 21 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1932.181
Geography: Made in New York, United States
Culture: American
Period: Post- Civil War
Classification: Sculpture
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Object/Work type

human figures (visual works)

Dated on back of cabinet: PATENTED / DEC. 4 / 1866

Inscribed front edge of base: THE CHARITY PATIENT

Signed front center top of base: JOHN ROGERS / NEW YORK

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