Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Fishing is the best sport for a retired schoolmaster - as he can still exhibit his partiality for the rod.
Call Number
D Middle 76/GC168/Box 04/Normal/19th c./Artists L-O GA 2006.02346
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc5m60r557k
Publisher
1850.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1850
Extent
1 item ; sheet 12.3 x 14.1 cm.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Medium: Watercolors on paper
Depiction: Man wearing 19th century suit and top hat, perched on tree branch, fishing in pond.
Item description: Accompanied by small note inscribed, 'Dr. John Rogers came from new Castle, Del. to N.Y. in 1753. He became powerful revolutionary preacher. His sermons were famous. He fled when loyalist troops entered city, & was successively minister at Amenia NY & resumed his position. He was first minister of the Brick Presbyterian Church. His son (a famous M.D.) married Susan, daughter of Reverand Kearny of Perth Amboy. Dr. Rogers married as second wife, Hannah Rhea Caldwell Smith, widow of James Robertson Smith.'
Unsigned. John Leech identified as artist on verso.

Discovery Information

Subject
Caricature
Fishers—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Teachers—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons

Physical Characteristics

File Count
2

Institutional Information

Collection
Omega Project
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/5d327801-3b4b-4f57-8af8-7b0878664416/manifest