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inv. 134
Bear Island from the South
Bear Island
1855
Graphite on paper
10 1/4 x 15 7/8 in. (26 x 40.3 cm)
Inscribed upper center (in pencil): 10 13 1 part / Bear Island from the South Sept. 1855 Lane—Hooper – Stevens / F.H. Lane del.; Inscribed across bottom (in pencil): Painting made from this sketch

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Supplementary Images

Viewpoint chart showing Lane's location when making this image
Photo: © Erik Ronnberg/US Coast Survey

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

Exhibition History

John Wilmerding, William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, Rockland, Maine, Fitz Hugh Lane 1804-1805, July 12–September 15, 1974., no. 11, lent by the Cape Ann Historical Association.

Published References

Paintings and Drawings by Fitz Hugh Lane. Gloucester, MA: Cape Ann Historical Association, 1974., fig. 55.
Fitz Hugh Lane 1804-1865. Rockland, ME: William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, 1974., no. 11, Bear Island.
Wilmerding, John. "Fitz Hugh Lane." The Artist's Mount Desert: American Painters on the Maine Coast. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994, pp. 45–67., fig. 55, p.62. ⇒ includes text

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Citation: "Bear Island from the South, 1855 (inv. 134)." Fitz Henry Lane Online. Cape Ann Museum. http://fitzhenrylaneonline.org/catalog/entry.php?id=134 (accessed March 28, 2024).
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