John Rogers StatuaryThe clay and plaster statuary groups made by John Rogers (1829 1904) from 1859 until after 1888 were so appealing in late Victorian America that scarcely a family of reasonable means and taste did not possess one. He portrayed ordinary, everyday, urban and rural people doing ordinary, everyday things. Thereby, he offered an unrivaled transcript of the manners, sports, amusements, social customs, domestic interests, costumes, and even modes of