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Catalog entry

inv. 110
Field Beach and Fresh Water Cove
1857
Graphite on paper (3 sheets)
9 3/4 x 22 3/4 in. (24.8 x 57.8 cm)
Inscribed lower left (in pencil): Field Beach and Fresh Water Cove / F.H. Lane del. 1857 / Picture painted from this sketch and presented to Joseph L. and Caroline Stevens

Commentary

This drawing of Field Beach, Steepbank, Fresh Water Cove, and Dolliver's Neck (with the Lone Pine on the end of it) was made into a painting for Joseph and Caroline Stevens: Dolliver's Neck and the Western Shore from Field Beach, 1857 (inv. 3). The vertical lines Lane used to mark the drawing as he transferred the composition to canvas can be seen on these three sheets of paper. Some details, such as the flagpole above Fresh Water Cove, the Lone Pine, the stone loading wharves in Fresh Water Cove, and the house Steepbank, appear in more detail in the drawing than they do in the painting. Also noteworthy is Lane's typical working method of leaving vessels out of his drawings and then adding them in the paintings.

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Supplementary Images

Viewpoint chart by Erik Ronnberg showing Lane's location when drawing this scene.
Infrared detail
Photo: Marcia Steele
© Cape Ann Museum

Provenance (Information known to date; research ongoing.)

the Artist, Gloucester, Mass.
Joseph L. Stevens, Jr., Gloucester, Mass.
Samuel H. Mansfield, Gloucester, Mass.
Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Mass., 1927

Marks & Labels

Marks: Inscribed upper left (in red ink): 40 [numbering system used by curator A. M. Brooks upon Samuel H. Mansfield's donation of the drawings to the Cape Ann Museum]

Exhibition History

No known exhibitions.

Published References

Paintings and Drawings by Fitz Hugh Lane. Gloucester, MA: Cape Ann Historical Association, 1974., fig. 22.
Citation: "Field Beach and Fresh Water Cove, 1857 (inv. 110)." Fitz Henry Lane Online. Cape Ann Museum. http://fitzhenrylaneonline.org/catalog/entry.php?id=110 (accessed March 29, 2024).
Record last updated July 14, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
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