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Fitz Henry Lane
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Catalog entry
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inv. 132
North View of Owl's Head
1855 Graphite on paper 1 sheet of paper 10 1/4 x 16 in. (26 x 40.6 cm) Inscribed across top (in pencil): North View of Owl's Head / (F.H.L.); Inscribed across bottom (in pencil): North View of Owl's Head / (J.S.H.) F.H.Lane del. Sept. 1855 / (J.L.S. Jr.); Inscribed lower left (in pencil): Lane - / Hooper- / Stevens - / First sketch made on our cruise. Taken from our boat in the early forenoon of a beautiful day, lying north of Owl's Head on our approach from Rockland; Inscribed in drawing (in pencil): white / red.
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Supplementary Images
Viewpoint map showing Lane's location when making this drawing
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): 11 [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
Sharf, Frederic Alan. "Fitz Hugh Lane: Visits to the Maine Coast, 1848–55." Essex Institute Historical Collections 98 (April 1962)., p. 118. ⇒ includes 
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Paintings and Drawings by Fitz Hugh Lane. Gloucester, MA: Cape Ann Historical Association, 1974., fig. 52.
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