Telemachus and Mentor in the Island of Calipso

1806

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Frances Mecia Campbell, Mrs. Saunders and Miss Beach's Academy, and others

Telemachus and Mentor in the Island of Calipso

Maker: Frances Mecia Campbell
School: Mrs. Saunders and Miss Beach’s Academy
Artist: Angelica Kauffmann
Artist: Francesco Bartolozzi
Framer Roxbury, Massachusetts: John Doggett

Telemachus and Mentor in the Island of Calipso

1806

Physical Qualities Silk ground, silk embroidery threads, watercolor, 18 x 20 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. (45.7 x 52.1 x 6.4 cm.)

Credit Line Purchase with exchange funds from Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James R. Herbert Boone; Gift of Maria Lovell Eaton and Mrs. Charles R. Weld; Gift of J. Gilman D'Arcy Paul; Bequest of John Henry Scarff; Gift of Florence Hendler Trupp; and Gift of the Women's Eastern Shore Society

Object Number 1989.352

Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1989; Stephen and Carol Huber, Inc., by purchase, East Lyme, CT; Christie's, New York, NY June 4, 1988

Anita Jones, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Lessons Learned: American Schoolgirl Embroideries," November 23, 2014-May 10, 2015.

Anita Jones, BMA, 'The Accomplished Stitch: American Samplers and Silk Embroideries from the Collection, May 11-July 20, 1997, no catalog, checklist, no. 15.

Wendy Cooper, BMA, "Classical Taste in America", 1800-1840, June 27-September 26, 1993.

"Important American Furniture, Silver, Folk Art and Decorative Arts," Christie's, New York, May 28-June 3, 1988.

"Important American Furniture, Silver, Folk Art and Decorative Arts," Christie's, NY (TOWER-6622), lot 107, p. 63, ill.

Wendy A. Cooper. Classical Taste in America 1800-1840. Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art; New York: Abbeville Press, 1993, page 257.

Andre, Linda, and Jessica Skwire Routhier, eds. The Baltimore Museum of Art: Celebrating A Museum. Baltimore, Maryland: Baltimore Museum of Art, 2014.