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Fitz Henry Lane
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Catalog entry
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inv. 112
Fresh Water Cove, Gloucester
c. 1864 Graphite on paper (2 sheets) 10 1/2 x 31 3/4 in. (26.7 x 80.6 cm) Inscribed lower center (in pencil): Fresh Water Cove Gloucester / F.H. Lane del.
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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): 93 [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. 25.
Wilmerding, John. Fitz Henry Lane. Gloucester, MA: Cape Ann Historical Association, 2005. Reprint of Fitz Hugh Lane, by John Wilmerding. New York: Praeger, 1971. Includes new information regarding the artist's name., ill. 56, text, p. 61.
Commentary
This drawing of Samuel Sawyer's estate, Brookbank, was the sketch for the painting sold to Sawyer in 1860 (Brookbank, The Sawyer Homestead, 1860 (inv. 216)), indicating that perhaps 1860 is the correct date for the drawing. Brookbank was renovated several times over the years, and the house and barn in the drawing show the way they appeared before the renovations. Lane has paid particular attention to the rock wall and details of the trees and vegetation.
In the background can be seen the flagpole above Fresh Water Cove, Fort Point, and the Fort and, off to the right of the composition, Ten Pound Island and the lighthouse.