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Catalog entry

inv. 129
South East View of Owl's Head , from the Point of the Island
1855
Graphite on paper (3 sheets)
10 1/2 x 30 1/2 in. (26.7 x 77.5 cm)
Inscribed across bottom (in pencil): South-east view Owl's Head from the point of the Island / 3 parts; Inscribed lower right (in pencil): Sept. 1855 / Lane-Stevens-Hooper-cruising in a Rockland sailboat / South East View of Owl's head from the point of the Island / by F.H. Lane / 3 parts
Inscribed verso: S.H.M. [Samuel H. Mansfield] on each sheet

Supplementary Images

Viewpoint chart showing Lane's location when making this drawing (detail)
Viewpoint chart showing Lane's location when making this drawing (overall view)

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): 87 [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. 48.
Citation: "South East View of Owl's Head , from the Point of the Island, 1855 (inv. 129)." Fitz Henry Lane Online. Cape Ann Museum. http://fitzhenrylaneonline.org/catalog/entry.php?id=129 (accessed April 25, 2024).
Record last updated January 11, 2017. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
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