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Fitz Henry Lane
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Catalog entry
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inv. 148
Gloucester Outer Harbor from Eastern Point
1850s Graphite on paper 8 1/2 x 11 in. (21.6 x 27.9 cm) Inscribed lower right (in pencil): Gloucester Outer Harbor from Eastern Point / F.H. Lane del.
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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
Exhibition History
No known exhibitions.Published References
Paintings and Drawings by Fitz Hugh Lane. Gloucester, MA: Cape Ann Historical Association, 1974., fig. 82.
Commentary
This drawing combines two sketches of completely different scale: a view of Gloucester Harbor from Rocky Neck, and a boat with an unsual, and perhaps foreign, rig. Just a few tiny marks indicate the buildings of Gloucester, including, perhaps, Lane's own home on Duncan's Point.