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Catalog entry

inv. 244
Blue Hill, Maine
Blue Hill
1851
Graphite on paper
10 1/2 x 27 7/8 in. (26.7 x 70.7 cm)
Signed, dated, and inscribed upper left (in pencil): Blue Hill Me. Aug 1851 / F.H. Lane; Inscribed lower left (in pencil): Painting made from this sketch / purchased by Peters of Boston

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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
Joseph L. Stevens, Jr., Gloucester, Mass.,1865 (by bequest)
Samuel H. Mansfield, Gloucester, Mass.
Cape Ann Museum, (Cape Ann Scientific, Literary and Historical Association) Gloucester, Mass., Gift of Samuel H. Mansfield, 1927. (485.27)
Philip and Frances L. Hofer, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1965 (sold to)
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Mass., 1979

Marks & Labels

Labels: Verso: De Cordova Museum; Frances Hofer

Exhibition History

DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts, Fitz Hugh Lane: The First Major Exhibition, March 20–April 17, 1966., no. 65.
Traveled to: Colby College Art Museum, Waterville, Maine, 30–6, 1966.
John Wilmerding, William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, Rockland, Maine, Fitz Hugh Lane 1804-1805, July 12–September 15, 1974., no. 7, ill.
Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida, Master Drawings and Watercolors: The Hofer Collection, April 15–July 7, 1984., no. 49.
Traveled to: Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Mass., 5–29, 1984.

Published References

Wilmerding, John. Fitz Hugh Lane, 1804–1865: American Marine Painter. Salem, MA: The Essex Institute, 1964., no. 196.
Wilmerding, John. Fitz Hugh Lane: The First Major Exhibition. Lincoln, MA: De Cordova Museum; in association with Colby College Art Museum, 1966., no. 65, Blue Hill. ⇒ includes text
Wilmerding, John. Fitz Hugh Lane. New York: Praeger, 1971., p. 69.
Fitz Hugh Lane 1804-1865. Rockland, ME: William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, 1974., no. 7, Illus. , Blue Hill.
Oberhuber, Konrad, ed. Master Drawings and Watercolors: The Hofer Collection. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Art Museum, 1984., no. 49.
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. 17, Blue Hill, Maine.

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Citation: "Blue Hill, Maine, 1851 (inv. 244)." Fitz Henry Lane Online. Cape Ann Museum. http://fitzhenrylaneonline.org/catalog/entry.php?id=244 (accessed April 23, 2024).
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