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inv. 166
Castine from Hospital Island
1855
Graphite on paper (6 sheets)
10 x 52 in. (25.4 x 132.1 cm)
Inscribed, signed, and dated across bottom (in pencil): Original of my lithograph Castine / From Hospital Island F.H. Lane del., Sept. 1855. F.H.L. / J.L.S.Jr.; Inscribed on sheets of paper lines numbered 1–17 left to right (in pencil): Boat is [...] here / This house little high / 1/22 inch / Church / School House / Town House / Print stops here

Related Work in the Catalog

Supplementary Images

Detail: left two sheets of drawing (1 of 5)
Detail: third from left sheet of drawing (2 of 5)
Detail: center sheet of drawing (3 of 5)
Detail: right sheet of drawing (4 of 5)
Detail: far right sheet of drawing (5 of 5)
Viewpoint map showing Lane's location when making this drawing
Infrared image
Photo: Marcia Steele
© Cape Ann Museum
Infrared image
Photo: Marcia Steele
© Cape Ann Museum
Infrared image
Photo: Marcia Steele
© 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): 9 [numbering system used by curator A. M. Brooks upon Samuel H. Mansfield's donation of the drawings to the Cape Ann Museum]

Exhibition History

Cape Ann Historical Association, Gloucester, Massachusetts, Training the Eye and Hand: Fitz Hugh Lane and Nineteenth Century American Drawing Books, September 17, 1993–January 29, 1994.
Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Massachusetts, Drawn From Nature & on Stone: The Lithographs of Fitz Henry Lane, October 7, 2017–March 4, 2018.

Published References

Paintings and Drawings by Fitz Hugh Lane. Gloucester, MA: Cape Ann Historical Association, 1974., fig. 100.
Training the Eye and the Hand: Fitz Hugh Lane and 19th Century Drawing Books. Gloucester, MA: Cape Ann Historical Association, 1993., p. 16-17, fig. 11, Castine from Hospital 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., pp.59-60. ⇒ includes text
Barnhill, Trafton. Drawn from Nature & on Stone: the Lithographs of Fitz Henry Lane. Gloucester, MA: Cape Ann Museum, 2017., fig. 25, text, p. 53, Castine from Hospital Island. ⇒ includes text
Citation: "Castine from Hospital Island, 1855 (inv. 166)." Fitz Henry Lane Online. Cape Ann Museum. http://fitzhenrylaneonline.org/catalog/entry.php?id=166 (accessed April 25, 2024).
Record last updated November 18, 2017. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
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