Catalog entry

inv. 91

View of Gloucester

1859

Oil over lithograph on paper

21 3/4 x 35 1/2 in. (55.2 x 90.2 cm)

Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Massachusetts (90)

On view at the Cape Ann Museum

Commentary

In this work, an unknown artist (perhaps Lane?) used oil to paint a lithograph from the edition View of Gloucester, 1859 (inv. 446). According to an undated clipping in the collection of the Cape Ann Museum Library, Lane was known to have painted these lithographs.:

From this painting Mr. Lane had finished a number of lithographs which were sold at a very low price. This did not bring to Mr. Lane much ready money and he was somewhat disappointed so he mounted several of these on canvas, painted them in oil and sold them to several of his friends for $25 and there are a number of these at present held in Gloucester and valued very highly.

Related Work in the Catalog

Additional material

Article by Sam Holdsworth in Cape Ann Museum: 2013 Annual Report, p. 7

Provenance (Information known to date; research ongoing.)

Alex Patillo

Miss Alice Patillo

Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Massachusetts

Exhibition History

No known exhibitions.

Published References

Wilmerding, John. Paintings by Fitz Hugh Lane. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art; in association with Harry N. Abrams, 1988., View of Gloucester, fig. 3, p.23.

Craig, James. Fitz H. Lane: An Artist's Voyage through Nineteenth-Century America. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2006., fig. 69 (detail), View of Gloucester.

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Related historical materials

Undated clipping

Vessel Types

Bark / Barkentine or Demi-Bark

Party Boat

Citation: "View of Gloucester, 1859 (inv. 91)." Fitz Henry Lane Online. Cape Ann Museum. http://fitzhenrylaneonline.org/catalog/entry.php?id=91 (accessed April 23, 2024).

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