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Fitz Henry Lane
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Catalog entry
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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
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Related Work in the Catalog
Supplementary Images
Viewpoint chart by Erik Ronnberg showing Lane's location when drawing this scene.
Infrared detail
Photo: Marcia Steele
© Cape Ann Museum
© 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.
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.