[Phono-L] A Fascinating and Historic Phono related Find

[Bill Burns]

On 5/25/2009 12:28 PM, john robles wrote:
> Onward - a friend of mine was
> selling and buying at the Rose Bowl flew market recently, and in his
> travels around the market he found a statuette that struck him. It is
> a scene called 'A Capital Joke' and it portrays two men at a table,
> and one has apparently just finished telling a great joke, and the
> other man is stretched out in his chair laughing and clutching a
> napkin to his chest.

The New-York Historical Society has a copy of this in plaster, and they 
attribute the original to John Rogers, who did many sculptures of 
figural groups that were reproduced in plaster and widely sold. They 
give his dates as 1829 to 1904.

http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!21723!0

A sculpture of that title, 9.5" tall, is listed in an 1889 G. Henneke 
catalog of "Florentine Statuary", so the sculpture would have pre-dated 
the Columbia ad and was probably a popular knick-knack of that period.

http://www.archive.org/details/henneckesartstud00hennrich

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Bill Burns
Long Island   NY   USA
http://ftldesign.com