Lucy Myers Wright Mitchell (March 20, 1845 – March 10, 1888) was an American writer, historian, and expert on ancient art. Mitchell was one of the first Americans to write and publish a book on classical sculpture and was one of the first women to study the field of classical archaeology.[1]

Lucy Myers Wright Mitchell
Syria, 1867. Age 22
Born	Lucy Myers Wright (1845-03-20)March 20, 1845 Urumiah, Persia
Died	March 10, 1888(1888-03-10) (aged 42) Lausanne, Switzerland
Occupation	Classical archaeologist, historian, author
Academic background
Alma mater	Mt. Holyoke College (left 1864, no degree)
Influences	Johannes Overbeck
Academic work
Institutions	Art Institute of Chicago (advisor) Imperial German Archaeological Institute (1884)
Notable works	A History of Ancient Sculpture (1883)

Mitchell was born in Urumiah, Persia, and was the daughter of Church of the East missionary and oriental scholar Austin Hazen Wright, and the sister of classical scholar, John Henry Wright. She attended Mount Holyoke College and later moved to Germany with her husband, artist Samuel S. Mitchell, before returning to Massachusetts.[1]

Her two-volume, 766 page work, A History of Ancient Sculpture, begins with its origins in Ancient Egypt in the first volume, and includes Selections of Ancient Sculpture, a second volume of plates.[2] Classical archaeologist Stephen L. Dyson calls Mitchell’s work "the first general American text on ancient art".[3]

Bibliography

• A History of Ancient Sculpture (1883) Download. View
• Selections of Ancient Sculpture (1883)

See also

• Ersilia Caetani-Lovatelli

Notes

References

• Dyson, Stephen L. "Lucy Wright Mitchell, 1845-1888" (PDF), University at Buffalo. Retrieved December 25, 2021.
• Teng, Wen Li. (2020). "Grant Park and the Globe: Lucy Mitchell, Bessie Bennett, and the Art Institute of Chicago." The Virginia Tech Undergraduate Historical Review. 9: pp. 17–27. doi:10.21061/vtuhr.v9i0.3

External links

• Collection: Wright Family papers, Dartmouth Library Archives & Manuscripts

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