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Welcome to Fitz Henry Lane Online

Fitz Henry Lane Online is a freely-accessible interactive and interdisciplinary online resource created by the Cape Ann Museum. The website is organized around a catalogue of the paintings, drawings, and lithographs of nineteenth-century American painter Fitz Henry Lane (1804–1865).

The Cape Ann Museum, located in Gloucester, Massachusetts, (Lane’s birthplace and home for most of his life) has the world’s largest collection of Lane’s paintings, drawings, lithographs, and related material. The website is intended to provide information of interest to a broad audience, and to serve as a resource for information and analysis of Lane’s work. The website focuses on both the formal, aesthetic qualities and provides detailed information on the historical context of his pictures. For more see About the Project.

The Western Shore with Norman's Woe, 1862 (inv. 18). Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Mass., Gift of Isabel Babson Lane, 1946 (1147.c)

Explore the Works in the Catalogue

Untitled, n.d. (inv. 226)
Untitled, n.d. (inv. 226)
Three Master at Sea, 1850s (inv. 139)
Three Master at Sea, 1850s (inv. 139)
New York Harbor, 1852 (inv. 345)
New York Harbor, 1852 (inv. 345)
View of Providence, R. I. 1848, 1849–52 (inv. 485)
View of Providence, R. I. 1848, 1849–52 (inv. 485)
View in Town Parish, 1863 (inv. 126)
View in Town Parish, 1863 (inv. 126)
Kettle Island, 1859 (inv. 20)
Kettle Island, 1859 (inv. 20)
Brace's Rock, 1864 (inv. 63)
Brace's Rock, 1864 (inv. 63)
Salem Mechanick, 1836 (inv. 472)
Salem Mechanick, 1836 (inv. 472)
At the Fishing Grounds, 1851 (inv. 276)
At the Fishing Grounds, 1851 (inv. 276)
View of Lowell, Mass., n.d. (inv. 444)
View of Lowell, Mass., n.d. (inv. 444)
Twilight on the Kennebec, 1849 (inv. 258)
Twilight on the Kennebec, 1849 (inv. 258)
View of Baltimore, 1850 (inv. 269)
View of Baltimore, 1850 (inv. 269)
Brig Off the Maine Coast, 1851 (inv. 241)
Brig Off the Maine Coast, 1851 (inv. 241)
Off Mount Desert Island, Maine, 1850–60 (inv. 263)
Off Mount Desert Island, Maine, 1850–60 (inv. 263)
View in Gloucester Harbor, 1850s (inv. 143)
View in Gloucester Harbor, 1850s (inv. 143)
Lifting the Mortgage, n.d. (inv. 488)
Lifting the Mortgage, n.d. (inv. 488)
Boston Harbor, c.1850 (inv. 48)
Boston Harbor, c.1850 (inv. 48)
The Cape Ann Museum is grateful to the following organizations for their support of Fitz Henry Lane Online:
Wyeth Foundation for American Art National Endowment for the Arts Institute of Museum and Library Science Thomfohrde Foundation Danversbank Charitable Foundation