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Fitz Henry Lane
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View of City of Washington
City of Washington; View of the city of Washington, the metropolis of the United States of America, taken from Arlington House, the residence of George Washington P. Custis Esq.; View of the City of Washington. The Metropolis of the United States of America. Taken from Arlington House, the Residence of George Washington P. Custis Esq
1838 Lithograph on paper 13 3/4 x 36 1/4 in. (34.9 x 92.1 cm) Signed lower center: View of the City of Washington - The Metropolis of the United States of America. Taken from Arlington House, The residence of George Washington P. Custis, Esq.
On stone: by F.H. Lane Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1838 by P. Anderson, in the clerks office of the District Court of Massachusetts. (Written in ink) P. Anderson, del. (Inset) Arlington House Collections:
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Exhibition History
Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Massachusetts, Drawn From Nature & on Stone: The Lithographs of Fitz Henry Lane, October 7, 2017–March 4, 2018. [Impression: Library of Congress (inv. 544)].
Published References
[Impression: The Mariners' Museum (inv. 411)].
Stokes, I.N. Phelps and Daniel C. Haskell. American Historical Prints: Early Views of American Cities, Etc. from the Phelps Stokes and Other Collections. New York: New York Public Library, 1932., pl. 63. [Impression: The New York Public Library (inv. 498)].
Wilmderding, John. "The Lithographs of Fitz Hugh Lane." Old-Time New England LIV, no. 2 (October–December 1963)., pp. 33, 37, City of Washington.
Wilmerding, John. Fitz Hugh Lane, 1804–1865: American Marine Painter. Salem, MA: The Essex Institute, 1964., p. 42. [Impression: The Mariners' Museum (inv. 411)].
The American Neptune, Pictorial Supplement VII: A Selection of Marine Paintings by Fitz Hugh Lane, 1804–1865. Salem, MA: The American Neptune, 1965., plate VI, no. 148, View of City of Washington. [Impression: The Mariners' Museum (inv. 411)]. ⇒ includes 
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Reps, John W. Views and Viewmakers of Urban America: Lithographs of Towns and Cities in the United States and Canada, Notes on the Artists and Publishers, and a Union Catalog of their Work,1825-1925. Columbia: University of Missouri Press., no. 664, p.277.
"Article on George Washington Parke Curtis." Smithsonian Magazine (November 1985). [Impression: The Mariners' Museum (inv. 411)].
Wilmerding, John. Paintings by Fitz Hugh Lane. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art; in association with Harry N. Abrams, 1988., p.10.
Training the Eye and the Hand: Fitz Hugh Lane and 19th Century Drawing Books. Gloucester, MA: Cape Ann Historical Association, 1993., p. 16; p. 20, View of City of Washington. [Impression: The Mariners' Museum (inv. 411)].
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., p. 25.
Barnhill, Trafton. Drawn from Nature & on Stone: the Lithographs of Fitz Henry Lane. Gloucester, MA: Cape Ann Museum, 2017., fig. 47, text, p. 18, View of the city of Washington, the metropolis of the United States of America, taken from Arlington House, the residence of George Washington P. Custis Esq. [Impression: Library of Congress (inv. 544)]. ⇒ includes text
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Library of Congress (inv. 544)
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Photo: Library of Congress (inv. 544)
View of the city of Washington, the metropolis of the United States of America, taken from Arlington House, the residence of George Washington P. Custis Esq.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Provenance
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The Mariners' Museum (inv. 411)
Signed lower center: View of the City of Washington - The Metropolis of the United States of America. Taken from Arlington House, The residence of George Washington, P. Custis, Esq.
On stone: by F.H. Lane Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1838 by P. Anderson, in the clerks office of the District Court of Massachusetts.
(Written in ink) P. Anderson, del.
(Inset) Arlington House.
Courtesy of The Mariners' Museum, Newport News, Va. (1936.0964.000001 / LP 1103)
Provenance
The Old Print Shop, New York, New York, 1936?
The Mariners' Museum, Newport News, Va., 1936
The New York Public Library (inv. 498)
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Photo: New York Public Library (498)
View of the City of Washington. The Metropolis of the United States of America. Taken from Arlington House, the Residence of George Washington P. Custis Esq
The New York Public Library, Gift of I.N. Phelps Stokes (110114)
Provenance
Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes
The New York Public Library
Commentary
Peter Anderson, an immigrant from Norway, produced the drawing upon which Fitz Henry Lane based this 1838 lithographic view of the city of Washington. This is the earliest known major view of our nation’s capital. Taken from Arlington, it shows the Potomac River and the far shore from Georgetown to the Capitol and eastward towards Fort McNair. Anderson drew three city views in 1837 —Washington, Worcester, and Ware, Massachusetts. Robert Cooke, a fellow artist at Moore’s Lithography, copied the other two, demonstrating that there were multiple artists in Boston capable of drawing panoramic city views on stone. Since Anderson held the copyright on the print, he undoubtedly was the publisher and distributor as well.