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Fitz Henry Lane
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Catalog entry
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inv. 108
View from Stage Rocks, Gloucester
1850s Graphite on paper (3 sheets) 10 x 36 in. (25.4 x 91.4 cm) Inscribed across bottom: View from Stage Rocks F.H. Lane del. / MACKAY "Picture from this sketch painted for Nathaniel Babson"
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Provenance (Information known to date; research ongoing.)
the Artist, Gloucester, Mass.
Joseph L. Stevens, Jr., Gloucester, Mass.
Samuel H. Mansfield, Gloucester, Mass.
Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Mass., 1927
Marks & Labels
Marks: Inscribed upper left (in red ink): 77 [numbering system used by curator A. M. Brooks upon Samuel H. Mansfield's donation of the drawings to the Cape Ann Museum]
Exhibition History
No known exhibitions.Published References
Paintings and Drawings by Fitz Hugh Lane. Gloucester, MA: Cape Ann Historical Association, 1974., fig. 20.
Commentary
Lane painted and drew a large number of pictures of the area around Stage Rocks. Some of these, like Stage Rocks and the Western Shore of Gloucester Outer Harbor, 1857 (inv. 8), are views taken from a boat, looking back at the shore. This drawing shows a different view, one taken from Stage Rocks, looking at Half Moon Beach, the house Steepbank on the hill beyond, and the Lone Pine, a contemporary landmark on the end of Dolliver's Neck.
The inscription on the drawing appears to be in two hands: that of Joseph Stevens, who annotated many of Lane's drawings after his death, and Lane's own hand. Stevens's notes state that there was a painting made after this drawing for Nathaniel Babson, of the family for whom Lane made many paintings. The second notation, perhaps in Lane's own hand, states only "Mackay," perhaps indicating that a painting was made for Captain Mackay, a Gloucester resident who, with his wife, was known to have purchased other pictures by Lane. The location of the painting after this drawing is unknown.