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inv. 114
Norman's Woe
1861
Graphite on paper (2 sheets)
8 1/2 x 25 1/2 in. (21.6 x 64.8 cm)
Inscribed lower center (in pencil): Norman's Woe / F.H. Lane del. 1861 / Painting made from this sketch for Florence Foster / Painting made from this sketch for Benjamin H. Smith
On view at the Cape Ann Museum

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Supplementary Images

Viewpoint chart showing Lane's location when making inv. #114. U.S. Coast Survey charts of Glouces... [more]ter Harbor and Cape Ann Region
Detail of rock showing scratch marks in pencil
Photo: © Cape Ann Museum

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

Exhibition History

National Gallery of Art, Washington, District of Columbia, American Light: The Luminist Movement, 1850–1875, February 10–June 15, 1980.
Cape Ann Historical Association, Gloucester, Massachusetts, Training the Eye and Hand: Fitz Hugh Lane and Nineteenth Century American Drawing Books, September 17, 1993–January 29, 1994.

Published References

Paintings and Drawings by Fitz Hugh Lane. Gloucester, MA: Cape Ann Historical Association, 1974., fig. 28.
Wilmerding, John, ed. American Light: The Luminist Movement, 1850–1875. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1980., fig. 33, pp. 40–41.
Training the Eye and the Hand: Fitz Hugh Lane and 19th Century Drawing Books. Gloucester, MA: Cape Ann Historical Association, 1993., p. 33, fig. 31, Norman's Woe.

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Cape Ann Locales
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Citation: "Norman's Woe, 1861 (inv. 114)." Fitz Henry Lane Online. Cape Ann Museum. http://fitzhenrylaneonline.org/catalog/entry.php?id=114 (accessed December 21, 2024).
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