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Catalog entry

inv. 181
Mount Desert Mountains, from Bar Island, Somes Sound
1850
Graphite on paper (2 sheets)
7 3/4 x 21 1/2 in. (19.7 x 54.6 cm)
Inscribed lower right (in pencil): Mount Desert Mountain / from Bar Island / Somes Sound / F.H. Lane del.; Inscribed lower left (in pencil): August / 1850 / Lane / Stevens / Tilden / Adams; Inscribed left of center (in pencil): Picture painted from this sketch once in my possession / and afterward sold by W.J. Balch

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): 18 [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. 115.
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. 42, p.49, Mount Desert Mountains, from Bar Island, Somes Sound. ⇒ includes text
Citation: "Mount Desert Mountains, from Bar Island, Somes Sound, 1850 (inv. 181)." Fitz Henry Lane Online. Cape Ann Museum. http://fitzhenrylaneonline.org/catalog/entry.php?id=181 (accessed April 27, 2024).
Record last updated December 4, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
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