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Catalog entry

inv. 185
Mount Desert Sketch
1850s
Graphite on paper (2 sheets)
9 1/2 x 20 1/4 in. (24.1 x 51.4 cm)
Inscribed lower left (in pencil): Mount Desert Sketch by F.H. Lane [...] Mackay; Inscribed lower right: (in pencil): FHL / JLS Jr; Inscribed center (in pencil): monument / sand beach

Supplementary Images

U.S. Coast Pilot chart of the Atlantic Coast showing entrance to Southwest and Bass Harbors, 1891
Photo: © Government Printing Office, 1891
Viewpoint chart showing Lane's location when making the drawing.
Photo: © Erik Ronnberg / Government Printing Office, 1891

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): 73 [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. 119.

Related historical materials

Maine Locales & Buildings
Mount Desert Island & Rock
People
Mackay, Capt. Harvey Coffin and Mrs. Sarah Somes
Citation: "Mount Desert Sketch, 1850s (inv. 185)." Fitz Henry Lane Online. Cape Ann Museum. http://fitzhenrylaneonline.org/catalog/entry.php?id=185 (accessed April 25, 2024).
Record last updated July 12, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
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