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Fitz Henry Lane
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The National Lancers with the Reviewing Officers on Boston Common.
The National Lancers on the Boston Common; The National Lancers with Reviewing Officers on Boston Common; The National Lancers with the Reviewing Officers at Boston Common
1837 Lithograph in colors 14 11/16 x 20 1/4 in. (37.2 x 51.4 cm) Sheet: 18 11/16 x 22 7/8 in. (47.5 x 58.1 cm)
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Exhibition History
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts, Fitz Hugh Lane: The First Major Exhibition, March 20–April 17, 1966., no. 70. [Impression: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (inv. 527)]
Traveled to: Colby College Art Museum, Waterville, Maine, 30–6, 1966.
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. 2, lent by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. [Impression: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (inv. 527)].
Boston Athenaeum, Boston, Massachusetts, New England Historical Prints: The Charles E. Mason, Jr., Collection, September–October 1991. [Impression: Boston Athenaeum (inv. 511)].
Published References
Peters, Harry T. America on Stone: The Other Printmakers to the American People. Garden City, NY: Doubleday Doran, 1931., pl. 101. [Impression: Yale University Art Gallery (inv. 407)].
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. 64. [Impression: The New York Public Library (inv. 497)].
McLanathan, Richard. Fitz Hugh Lane (Museum of Fine Arts Picture Book Number Eight). Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1956; 1972 second ed., The National Lancers with the Reviewing Officers on Boston Common. [Impression: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (inv. 527)]. ⇒ includes 
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Wilmderding, John. "The Lithographs of Fitz Hugh Lane." Old-Time New England LIV, no. 2 (October–December 1963)., p. 33, The National Lancers on the Boston Common.
Wilmerding, John. Fitz Hugh Lane: The First Major Exhibition. Lincoln, MA: De Cordova Museum; in association with Colby College Art Museum, 1966., no. 70. [Impression: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (inv. 527)]. ⇒ includes text
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Fitz Hugh Lane 1804-1865. Rockland, ME: William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, 1974., no. 2.
Crossman, Carl L. "Lithographs of Fitz Hugh Lane." In American Maritime Prints, edited by Elton W. Hall. New Bedford, MA: The Whaling Museum by the Old Dartmouth Historical Society, 1987, pp. 63–94. The Proceedings of the Eighth Annual North American Print Conference held at the Whaling Museum, New Bedford, Mass., May 6–7, 1977., fig. 2 p.68. [Impression: Boston Athenaeum (inv. 512)]. ⇒ includes text
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Pierce, Sally, and Catharina Slautterback. Boston Lithography, 1825–1880: The Boston Atheneaum Collection. Boston: Boston Athenaeum, 1991., fig. 39. [Impression: Boston Athenaeum (inv. 511)].
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. 6, text, p. 24, The National Lancers with the Reviewing Officers on Boston Common.
Impression information
Boston Athenaeum (inv. 511)
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Photo: Boston Athenaeum (inv. 511)
Printed under image from left to right: C. Hubbard del.
On stone: By F.H. Lane Moore's Lithography, Boston.
Boston Athenaeum, Gift of Charles E. Mason, Jr., 1982 (1982.6)
Provenance
Goodspeed's Book Shop
Charles E. Mason, Jr., February 1980
Boston Athenaeum, April 1982
Boston Athenaeum (inv. 512)
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Photo: Boston Athenaeum (inv. 512)
Printed under image from left to right: C. Hubbard del.
On stone: By F.H. Lane Moore's Lithography, Boston.
Boston Athenaeum, Gift of Charles E. Mason, Jr., 1975 (1975.28)
Provenance
Charles E. Mason, Jr.
Boston Athenaeum, 1975
The Bostonian Society (inv. 750)
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Photo: Bostonian Society
The Bostonian Society (1921.0016.002)
Provenance
The Bostonian Society
Library of Congress (inv. 543)
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Photo: Library of Congress (inv. 543)
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Provenance
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Massachusetts Historical Society (inv. 603)
The National Lancers with Reviewing Officers on Boston Common
Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston (Graphics Boston - Common 16)
Provenance
Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (inv. 526)
The National Lancers with the Reviewing Officers at Boston Common
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Bequest of Charles Hitchcock Tyler (33.789) (33.789)
Provenance
Charles Hitchcock Tyler, Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1933
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (inv. 527)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The M. and M. Karolik Collection of Eighteenth-Century American Arts (39.257)
Provenance
Maxim Karolik, Newport, R.I.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1939
The New York Public Library (inv. 497)
The New York Public Library, Gift of I.N. Phelps Stokes (110112)
Provenance
Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes
The New York Public Library
Yale University Art Gallery (inv. 407)
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Photo: Yale University Art Gallery (inv. 407)
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., Mabel Brady Garvan Collection (1946.9.1842)
Provenance
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1946
Commentary
In 1836, the Massachusetts Legislature established the National Lancers to escort and protect the Governor of the Commonwealth. Now headquartered in Framingham, this volunteer cavalry troop still exists today, a ceremonial component of the Massachusetts Organized Militia and a search and rescue unit.
In 1836, the governor of Massachusetts commissioned Charles Hubbard to produce the military standard held aloft in the parade depicted in this hand-colored lithograph. Hubbard also made a painting of the event from which Lane made this print. The governor and his entourage on the left review the parade; members of the public are scattered in the middle and on the far left. The coloring was applied by hand at the time the print was published. At least one impression of the lithograph was over-painted in oil. In 1837, the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association recognized Lane for his lithographic drawings done in connection with this print and Thomas Moore for his printing.