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Fitz Henry Lane
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Catalog entry
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inv. 347
Entrance of Somes Sound, Mount Desert, Maine
Entrance of Somes Sound, from back of the Island House at South West Harbor
1855 Graphite on wove paper 10 5/8 x 16 in. (27 x 40.6 cm) Inscribed upper center (in pencil): Entrance of Somes Sound from the back of the Island House / at South West Harbor Mt. Desert; Inscribed upper right (in pencil): Sept. 1855 Lane-Hooper-Stevens; Signed lower center (in pencil): F.H. Lane del.
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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, (Cape Ann Scientific, Literary and Historical Association) Gloucester, Mass., Gift of Samuel H. Mansfield, 1927. (485.101)
John Wilmerding, 1965 (sold to)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Marks & Labels
Marks: Inscribed upper left (in red ink): 101 [numbering system used by curator A. M. Brooks upon Samuel H. Mansfield's donation of the drawings to the Cape Ann Museum]
Exhibition History
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts, Fitz Hugh Lane: The First Major Exhibition, March 20–April 17, 1966., no. 67.
Traveled to: Colby College Art Museum, Waterville, Maine, 30–6, 1966.
Traveled to: Colby College Art Museum, Waterville, Maine, 30–6, 1966.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, District of Columbia, American Masters from Bingham to Eakins: The John Wilmerding Collection, May 9–October 10, 2004., no. 32, ill.
Published References
Wilmerding, John. Fitz Hugh Lane, 1804–1865: American Marine Painter. Salem, MA: The Essex Institute, 1964., fig. 13.
The American Neptune, Pictorial Supplement VII: A Selection of Marine Paintings by Fitz Hugh Lane, 1804–1865. Salem, MA: The American Neptune, 1965., plate XXIV, no. 216, Entrance of Somes Sound, from back of the Island House at South West Harbor. ⇒ includes 
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Wilmerding, John. Fitz Hugh Lane: The First Major Exhibition. Lincoln, MA: De Cordova Museum; in association with Colby College Art Museum, 1966., no. 67, Entrance of Somes Sound, from back of the Island House at South West Harbor. ⇒ includes text
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Wilmerding, John. Fitz Hugh Lane. New York: Praeger, 1971., no. 65, pp. 62–63, 68.
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. 52, Entrance of Somes Sound, from back of the Island House at South West Harbor. ⇒ includes text
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Kelly, Franklin. American Masters from Bingham to Eakins: The John Wilmerding Collection. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art; in association with Lund Humphries, 2004., pp. 117, 119.
American Masters from Bingham to Eakins: The John Wilmerding Collection. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2004., no. 32, p. 119.
Wilmerding, John. Fitz Henry Lane. Gloucester, MA: Cape Ann Historical Association, 2005. Reprint of Fitz Hugh Lane, by John Wilmerding. New York: Praeger, 1971. Includes new information regarding the artist's name., ill. 65, text, p. 68.
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