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Fitz Henry Lane
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inv. 486
Sicilian Vespers
(Attributed to Lane) c. 1832 Lithograph sheet music cover on paper 5 1/2 x 7 in. (14 x 17.8 cm) Sheet: 13 1/4 x 9 7/8 in. (33.8 x 25.2 cm.) Inscribed lower center: Pendleton's Lithogy, Boston, Boston / Published by C. Bradlee, 162 Washington St.
Lower left: F.H.L. scratched onto stone Collections:
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Related Work in the Catalog
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: Boston Athenaeum (inv. 431)].
Published References
Craig, James. Fitz H. Lane: An Artist's Voyage through Nineteenth-Century America. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2006., fig. 12, text, pp. 48-49. [Impression: Boston Athenaeum (inv. 431)].
Barnhill, Trafton. Drawn from Nature & on Stone: the Lithographs of Fitz Henry Lane. Gloucester, MA: Cape Ann Museum, 2017., fig. 5, text, p. 10, Sicilian Vespers. [Impression: Boston Athenaeum (inv. 431)]. ⇒ includes 
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Boston Athenaeum (inv. 431)
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Photo: Boston Athenaeum (inv. 431)
Inscribed lower center: Pendelton's Lithogy, Boston, Boston / Published by C. Bradlee, 162 Washington St.
Lower left: F.H.L. scratched onto stone.
Boston Athenaeum, Gift of Charles E. Mason Jr., 1978 (1978.3)
Provenance
Charles E. Mason, Jr.
Boston Athenaeum, January 1978
Commentary
The business of lithography firms included publishing prints on their own and undertaking projects commissioned by publishers of books, periodicals, music and businesses. Fitz Henry Lane’s oeuvre was broad and included designs for the covers of music scores including this one, published around 1832 by William S. Pendleton. Although not signed, his initials are scratched into the stone in the lower left. Given that the composer, Sydney Nelson, and the lyricist, Charles Jeffreys, were both British, it is likely that Lane copied the image from an imported score.
Sometime between 1840 and 1845, Benjamin W. Thayer, who succeeded Thomas Moore as owner of Pendleton’s Lithography, reused the stone and Lane’s image for Sicilian Vespers for the cover of another musical score, The Mariner Loves O'er the Waters to Roam (inv. 734).