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inv. 171
Camden Mountains from the South Entrance to Harbor
1855
Graphite on paper (2 sheets)
10 1/2 x 26 in. (26.7 x 66 cm)
Inscribed: lower left (in pencil): Camden Mts. from the South Entrance to Harbor / F.H. Lane del. / Sept. 1855 Lane-Hooper-Stevens; Inscribed lower center (in pencil): 2 pcs.; inscribed lower right (in pencil): sketch taken from the boat on our return / to Rockland

Related Work in the Catalog

Supplementary Images

Proposed viewpoint of Lane when creating the picture. Viewpoint plottings by Erik Ronnberg using the... [more] 1876 U.S. Coast Survey chart of Penobscot Bay.

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): 39 [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.

Published References

Paintings and Drawings by Fitz Hugh Lane. Gloucester, MA: Cape Ann Historical Association, 1974., fig. 105.
Wilmerding, John. Paintings by Fitz Hugh Lane. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art; in association with Harry N. Abrams, 1988., ill. in b/w p. 147 fig. 25, Camden Mountains from the South Entrance to Harbor.
Training the Eye and the Hand: Fitz Hugh Lane and 19th Century Drawing Books. Gloucester, MA: Cape Ann Historical Association, 1993., p. 11-12, fig. 5, Camden Mountains from the South Entrance to Harbor.
Davis, Elliot Bostwick. "American Drawing Books and Their Impact on Fitz Hugh Lane." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 105, part 1 (1995)., p. 98. ⇒ includes text
Slifkin, Robert. "Fitz Henry Lane and the Compromised Landscape, 1848–1865." American Art 27, no. 3 (Fall 2013). View on Stable URL: www.jstor.org », fig. 1, p. 68, text, p. 67. ⇒ includes text
Citation: "Camden Mountains from the South Entrance to Harbor, 1855 (inv. 171)." Fitz Henry Lane Online. Cape Ann Museum. http://fitzhenrylaneonline.org/catalog/entry.php?id=171 (accessed April 25, 2024).
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