Donald Grant Mitchell, 1822-1908 – Vintage Print
![Donald Grant Mitchell, 1822-1908, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/2b/2b114054bacb-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Donald Grant Mitchell, 1822-1908, an antique engraving rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Donald Grant Mitchell, 1822-1908
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Donald Grant Mitchell, the American essayist known by the pen name Ik Marvel, is the sitter in this steel engraving, a portrait format that was common for authors in the mid-nineteenth century. Mitchell wrote the popular sentimental sketches *Reveries of a Bachelor* (1850) and *Dream Life* (1851), and later spent years as a farmer and writer at his estate in New Haven, Connecticut. The record gives no date for the print, but steel engraving was the standard method for book frontispieces and magazine portraits of the period, so the image likely served that kind of literary audience. Its value lies in showing how American writers of that era presented themselves to their readers.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : steel engraving. |
| Notes | This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI; Shelf. Mitchell, Donald Grant, 1822-1908. Sources checked: MUMS; BI; BF. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,422 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-150157 |
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