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Catalog entry

inv. 153
Coffins Beach from the Loaf
Coffin's Beach from the Loaf
1862
Graphite on paper (2 sheets)
7 1/4 x 17 1/4 in. (18.4 x 43.8 cm)
Inscribed across bottom (in pencil): Coffin's Beach from the Loaf / F.H. Lane del. 1862 / Picture painted from this sketch and presented to Mrs. Dr. Davidson; Inscribed lower right (in pencil): F.H.L / J.L.S. Jr.

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Supplementary Images

Photo: Boston Imaging Digital Solutions
detail to show pencil chatter marks
Photo: © Cape Ann Museum

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): 6 [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. 87.
Quinn, Karen with Sandra Kelberlau and Jean Woodward. "Rediscovering Fitz Henry Lane's 'View of Coffin's Beach' on Cape Ann." The Magazine Antiques (2006)., fig. 2, p. 68, Coffin's Beach from the Loaf. ⇒ includes text
Citation: "Coffins Beach from the Loaf, 1862 (inv. 153)." Fitz Henry Lane Online. Cape Ann Museum. http://fitzhenrylaneonline.org/catalog/entry.php?id=153 (accessed April 26, 2024).
Record last updated July 7, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
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