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inv. 174
Camden Mountains and Harbor from the North Point of Negro Island [Curtis Island]
1855
Graphite on paper (3 sheets)
10 1/2 x 25 1/2 in. (26.7 x 64.8 cm)
Inscribed across bottom (in pencil): Camden Mts + Harbor from the North point of / Negro Island and made by Lane toward sundown of our second day's cruise. / The picture painted from this sketch was sold by W.G. Balch to a gentleman of Maine.; Inscribed on each sheet of paper (in pencil): 3 parts; Inscribed lower right (in pencil): F.H. Lane / J.L. Stevens Jr. / J.S. Hooper / Sept. 1855

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Supplementary Images

Viewpoint chart showing Lane's location when making this image
Photo: © Erik Ronnberg/U.S. 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): 38 [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. 108.
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 », p. 69. ⇒ includes text
Citation: "Camden Mountains and Harbor from the North Point of Negro Island [Curtis Island], 1855 (inv. 174)." Fitz Henry Lane Online. Cape Ann Museum. http://fitzhenrylaneonline.org/catalog/entry.php?id=174 (accessed April 19, 2024).
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