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Catalog entry

inv. 175
Camden Mountains from the Penobscot Bay
1851
Graphite on paper
10 3/8 x 16 1/8 in. (26.4 x 41 cm)
Inscribed across bottom (in pencil): Camden Mts from the Penobscot Bay – Taken from steamer's deck in passing – by F.H. Lane / Aug 1851 / A small painting was made from this sketch. Once in my possession and afterward sold by H.G. Balch; Inscribed verso on left edge (in pencil): Jonathan L. Stevens house

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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

Marks & Labels

Marks: Inscribed upper left verso (in red ink): 58 [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. 109.
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. 141 fig. 16, Camden Mountains from the Penobscot Bay.

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Citation: "Camden Mountains from the Penobscot Bay, 1851 (inv. 175)." Fitz Henry Lane Online. Cape Ann Museum. http://fitzhenrylaneonline.org/catalog/entry.php?id=175 (accessed April 24, 2024).
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