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Fitz Henry Lane
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Catalog entry
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inv. 124
View in West Parish on Lower Road
c. 1863 Graphite on paper (3 sheets) 9 1/4 x 27 1/4 in. (23.5 x 69.2 cm) Inscribed lower center (in pencil): F.H. Lane del. / Probably a view in West Parish on lower road
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Verso
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): 80 [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. 42.
Commentary
The location of the site of this drawing is speculative. The inscription on it, probably by Joseph Stevens, suggests that it is in the West Parish, on the other side of Little River and the Annisquam from Riverdale. One historian of Gloucester has suggested that it shows the farm of Alfred Presson, but we do not know what evidence supports that.
The drawing is one of Lane's relatively few landscape scenes—showing the road along a river, the various fences, and a house along the road.