Lucy Myers Wright Mitchell

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 missionary and oriental scholar Austin Hazen Wright, and the sister of classical scholar, John Henry Wright. Her two-volume, 766 page work, "A History of Ancient Sculpture", examines the history of ancient sculpture beginning with its origins in Ancient Egypt, and includes another volume of plates.

Bibliography

*"A History of Ancient Sculpture" (1883) [http://books.google.com/books/pdf/A_History_of_Ancient_Sculpture.pdf?id=dyAEAAAAYAAJ&output=pdf&sig=tXdV41M9n1zfoyM9N5Eyxjd7Xb0 Download] . [http://books.google.com/books?id=dyAEAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage View]
*"Selections of Ancient Sculpture" (1883)

References

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title = Anicent Sculpture
newspaper = The New York Times
pages = BR431
year = 1905
date = 1905-07-01
url = http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9B02EEDA163EE733A25752C0A9619C946497D6CF&oref=slogin.
*Citation
last = Dyson
first = Stephen L.
title = Lucy Wright Mitchell, 1845-1888
date =
year =
publisher = University of Buffalo
url = http://www.brown.edu/Research/Breaking_Ground/bios/Mitchell_Lucy%20Wright.pdf
accessdate = 2007-12-23 .
*Citation
last = Dyson
first = Stephen L.
title = Ancient Marbles to American Shores: Classical Archaeology in the United States
publisher = University of Pennsylvania Press
year = 1998
pages = 106
isbn = 0812234464.