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Catalog entry

inv. 111
Gloucester from Brookbank
1856
Graphite on paper (3 sheets)
9 1/2 x 28 1/4 in. (24.1 x 71.8 cm)
Inscribed lower center: F. H. Lane del.

Commentary

Gloucester businessman and philanthropist Samuel Sawyer was a good patron and friend of Lane's. This drawing of Fresh Water Cove, used for Gloucester from Brookbank, 1848 (inv. 42), is composed from Brookbank, Samuel Sawyer's home. Looking east over Fresh Water Cove towards the Ten Pound Island lighthouse, it shows Sawyer's stone loading wharf where granite quarried up the hill behind the house was put onto stone sloops. The building to the left is believed to have been a boathouse.

Related Work in the Catalog

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): 69 [numbering system used by curator A. M. Brooks upon Samuel H. Mansfield's donation of the drawings to the Cape Ann Museum]

Exhibition History

DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts, Fitz Hugh Lane: The First Major Exhibition, March 20–April 17, 1966., no. 60.
Traveled to: Colby College Art Museum, Waterville, Maine, 30–6, 1966.

Published References

Wilmerding, John. Fitz Hugh Lane: The First Major Exhibition. Lincoln, MA: De Cordova Museum; in association with Colby College Art Museum, 1966., no. 60. ⇒ includes text
Paintings and Drawings by Fitz Hugh Lane. Gloucester, MA: Cape Ann Historical Association, 1974., fig. 24.

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Gloucester Buildings & Businesses
Cape Ann Locales
Flags, Lighthouses, & Navigation Aids
Maritime & Other Industries & Facilities
People
Citation: "Gloucester from Brookbank, 1856 (inv. 111)." Fitz Henry Lane Online. Cape Ann Museum. http://fitzhenrylaneonline.org/catalog/entry.php?id=111 (accessed March 28, 2024).
Record last updated July 14, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
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