Jane Cannon Campbell

Date1855

MediumPastel on paper

DimensionsFramed: 26 1/2 × 22 × 4 in. (67.3 × 55.9 × 10.2 cm) Sight: 20 1/2 × 16 1/2 in. (52.1 × 41.9 cm)

Object numberN0002.1991

Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Gift of A. Pennington Whitehead

Photograph by Richard Walker

Label Text Jane Cannon was the wife of Samuel Campbell, an officer in the Revolution. Their fortified house was one of the targets of the British and Indian raiders of Cherry Valley in November 1778. She and some of her children were taken into captivity to Canada and were eventually exchanged several years later.

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