Rebecca Brown Campbell
Sampler
Maker's Name
Campbell, Rebecca Brown
Location
Bardstown, Nelson County, Kentucky
Date Made
Not recorded
Maker's Age
Unknown
Dimensions
15 ¾ x 12 inches
Medium
Cotton on linen with Algerian eye, cross and four-sided stitches
Provenance
Made by Rebecca Brown Campbell. Currently owned by Private Collector #24.
Description
Alphabet and numeral sampler with the signature across the bottom:
Rebecca Brown Campbell
Bardstown Female Academy

This sampler was made by Rebecca Brown Campbell while at the Bardstown Female Academy in Bardstown, Kentucky. “A Female Boarding School, / Is established in Bardstown, / Ky. BY MR. & MRS. JONES, / In which are taught the following branches, spelling, reading, writing, grammar, / arithmetic, geography; higher branches, composition, / rhetoric the use of globes, logic, history, natural / and moral philosophy….” (LOUISVILLE PUBLIC ADVERTISER, Kentucky, 4 October 1820, page 3, column 3)
Owner/History of Owner/Credit Line
Private Collector #24 (via MESDA Object Database rights/permissions. Derita Williams, Luke Beckerdite , and Bradford L. Rauschenberg examined this sampler on 09/14/1982 for MESDA. AKS requests further information from Private Collector 4 if possible.)
AKS Catalog Number
2019-012
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