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Renova Cottage

"Playing Doctor" Statue

This piece was created by John Rogers in 1872. He used his own children as models. The 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 urban and rural people in everyday activities.