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Lucy Myers Wright Mitchell
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Syria, 1867. Age 22
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Lucy Myers Wright
March 20, 1845 Urumiah, Persia
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| Died | March 10, 1888 (aged 42) |
| Alma mater | Mt. Holyoke College (left 1864, no degree) |
| Occupation | Classical archaeologist, historian, author |
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| Institutions | Art Institute of Chicago (advisor) Imperial German Archaeological Institute (1884) |
| Influences | Johannes Overbeck |
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.
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.
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. Classical archaeologist Stephen L. Dyson calls Mitchell’s work "the first general American text on ancient art".
