[Rarebooks] FS: Two 1870s Mounted Promotional Albumen Prints for Rogers Groups

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, Ephemera & Photographs]

Original 1870s Mounted Promotional Albumen print for Rogers Group 
‘Returned Volunteer’.

A mounted albumen print of a John Rogers plaster group, with a paper 
label on the back reading “Rodgers’ Groups, Returned Volunteer - How the 
Fort Was Taken” - Published by Annesley & Vint, Nos. 504 and 506 
Broadway, Albany, N.Y.”. Sharp eyes will have noted that although the 
print was in all probability supplied by Rogers, the label was most 
certainly by Annesley & Vint, as the Rogers firm would hardly have 
misspelled their own name, no matter how they spelled "Groups"…   
9.75”x12” (mount), 7.25”x9.25” (image). Some soil and light wear to the 
mount. [43418]  $175

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Original 1870s Mounted Promotional Albumen print for Rogers Group 
‘Taking the Oath - Drawing Rations’.

A mounted albumen print of a John Rogers plaster group, with a paper 
label on the back reading “Rodgers’ Groupes, Taking the Oath - and 
Drawing Rations” - Published by Annesley & Vint, Nos. 504 and 506 
Broadway, Albany, N.Y.”. Sharp eyes will have noted that although the 
print was in all probability supplied by Rogers, the label was most 
certainly by Annesley & Vint, as the Rogers firm would hardly have 
misspelled their own name, no matter how they spelled "Groups"…   
9.75”x12” (mount), 7.25”x9.25” (image). Some soil and light wear to the 
mount. [43419]  $175

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John Rogers [1829–1904] “was an American sculptor who produced very 
popular, relatively inexpensive figurines in the latter 19th century. He 
became famous for his small genre sculptures, popularly termed "Rogers 
Groups", which were mass-produced in cast plaster. At the height of 
their popularity, Rogers' figurines graced the parlors of homes in the 
United States and were found as far away as Chile and Australia. The 
English novelist Charles Reade furnished his home with all the Rogers 
figurines available to him, and in the Dakota Territory, Lt. Col. George 
Custer and his wife had one. Often selling for $15 apiece, the figurines 
were affordable to the middle class. Instead of working in bronze and 
marble, he sculpted in more affordable plaster, painted the color of 
putty to hide dust. Rogers was inspired by popular novels, poems and 
prints as well as the scenes he saw around him”.

Annesley & Vint specialized in pictures frames & mirrors, prints, Rogers 
groups and such, and moved from their Broadway address in 1875, dating 
these to no later than that year.

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