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Fitz Henry Lane
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Catalog entry
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inv. 126
View in Town Parish
1863 Graphite on paper (2 sheets) 10 x 29 in. (25.4 x 73.7 cm) Inscribed lower center (in pencil): View in Town Parish / F.H. Lane del. / Painting made from this sketch for the Misses Babson
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Supplementary Images
Infrared image shows Lane's carefully rendered buildings, including windows and trees. Also the grid... [more] in the center of the painting shows how he used this method for transferring the drawing to the painting. Dark patches are areas of retouching by a later conservator.
Photo: J. Neubecker
© Cape Ann Museum
© Cape Ann Museum
Map showing Lane's viewpoint
Image through the microscope of the drawing shows Lane's handiwork in detail and texture of the paper.
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): 76 [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. 44.
Wilmerding, John, ed. American Light: The Luminist Movement, 1850–1875. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1980., p. 45, fig. 38.
Commentary
This drawing for Babson and Ellery Houses, Gloucester, 1863 (inv. 10) shows the grid and meticulous detail that Lane transferred to the canvas, as can be seen in the infrared images of the painting. Washington Street is the street next to the fence in front of the Babson House and a small building, perhaps an outhouse in the yard. The town landing is to the left of the composition, with the road there leading to the town gravel pit and the two hitching posts that can be seen along the road. Although there is a huge pile of marsh hay in this drawing, absent is the gundalow that is in the painting.