The Favored Scholar was one of John Rogers’s more sentimental groups, showing a girl receiving special attention from a young male teacher. It proved a very personal subject for one schoolteacher, Mr. B. W. Woodward from Pennsylvania, who gave this sculpture pride of place after he married his own “favored scholar.”
- Title
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The Favored Scholar
- Artist
- Date
- patented 1873
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 21 1⁄8 x 16 1⁄8 x 12 1⁄4 in. (53.5 x 40.9 x 31.0 cm.)
- Credit Line
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Gift of John Rogers and Son
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- cast and painted plaster
- Classifications
- Keywords
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- Recreation – courting
- Occupation – education – teacher
- Occupation – education – student
- Figure group – male and child
- Object Number
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1882.1.7
- Palette
- Linked Open Data
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