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Catalog entry

inv. 177
View of Bar Island and Mount Desert Mountains, from the Bay in Front of Somes Settlement
1850
Graphite on paper (2 sheets)
9 3/8 x 17 1/2 in. (23.8 x 44.4 cm)
Inscribed: Inscribed upper left (in pencil): Boat "General gates" / Pilot Gatchell from Castine / Lane-del / Tilden / Stevens / Adams / } companions; Inscribed center (in pencil): "Gen. Gates" / Capt. Getchell / Encampment; Inscribed lower right (in pencil): View of Bar Island and / Mount Desert Mountains / from the bay in front of / Some's Settlement / Augt 1850

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Supplementary Images

Chart showing Lane's location when making this drawing
Chart showing Lane's location when making this drawing (detail)

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): 16 [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. 111.
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., fig. 43, p.50, View of Bar Island and Mount Desert Mountains, from the Bay in Front of Somes Settlement. ⇒ includes text
Citation: "View of Bar Island and Mount Desert Mountains, from the Bay in Front of Somes Settlement, 1850 (inv. 177)." Fitz Henry Lane Online. Cape Ann Museum. http://fitzhenrylaneonline.org/catalog/entry.php?id=177 (accessed April 26, 2024).
Record last updated February 15, 2017. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
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