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date: label: Date made
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name: label: depicted
content: Mitchell, Margaret Julia
label: maker
content: A. Hoen & Co.
notes: label: Description
content: This black and white print with a sepia tint is a profile bust portrait of the actress Maggie Mitchell, her hair loose, wearing a high-necked bodice. Her signature appears below the portrait. Beneath her portrait are the words “Wednesday Evening, May 15.”
label: Description
content: Maggie Mitchell (1832-1918) has been described as a pioneering example of "the personality actress," a performer whose onstage persona was almost indistinguishable from her image offstage. (<i> The History of North American Theater</i>). She was born Margaret Julia Mitchell in New York City. As a young girl, she performed in silent roles before making her speaking debut as Julia in <i> The Soldier's Daughter </i> in 1851. Petite and curly haired, with a childlike energy, she was often cast in sentimental comedies and in male or “tomboy” roles, including the title role in a stage adaptation of <i> Oliver Twist</i>. Mitchell's sprightly charm sparked what would later be called a "Maggie Mitchell craze" in Cleveland, Ohio, and she eventually became one of the most celebrated actresses of her era. She appeared in <i> Jane Eyre</i>, <i> Little Barefoot</i>, <i> The Pearl of Savoy</i>, and other dramas, but her best-known role was as a simple country girl in a comedy called <i> Fanchon, the Cricket</i>, adapted from George Sand's story "La Petite Fadette." She made her debut as Fanchon in the early 1860s and continued to perform the part, along with her trademark “shadow dance,” until she was in her fifties. Abraham Lincoln, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow were said to be among her admirers. Maggie Mitchell retired from the theater in 1892 at the age of 60 and became quite wealthy by investing in real estate in Manhattan and Long Branch, New Jersey. She was married first to Henry Thomas Paddock and then to a co-star, Charles Abbott, and was related to several other stage personalities. The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has a photograph of Maggie Mitchell by Matthew Brady.
label: Description
content: This lithograph was produced by A. Hoen & Co, a lithographic firm in Baltimore, Maryland and Richmond, Virginia. The company was established in the 1840s by August and Ernest Hoen after the death of Edward Weber and the takeover of the E. Weber Company.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
topic: label: Subject
content: Theater
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content: Peters Prints
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creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.3039
label: catalog number
content: 60.3039
label: accession number
content: 228146
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lithograph
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 18 in x 13 7/8 in; 45.72 cm x 35.2425 cm