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Fitz Henry Lane
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Catalog entry
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inv. 111
Gloucester from Brookbank
1856 Graphite on paper (3 sheets) 9 1/2 x 28 1/4 in. (24.1 x 71.8 cm) Inscribed lower center: F. H. Lane del.
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Related Work in the Catalog
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): 69 [numbering system used by curator A. M. Brooks upon Samuel H. Mansfield's donation of the drawings to the Cape Ann Museum]
Exhibition History
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts, Fitz Hugh Lane: The First Major Exhibition, March 20–April 17, 1966., no. 60.
Traveled to: Colby College Art Museum, Waterville, Maine, 30–6, 1966.
Traveled to: Colby College Art Museum, Waterville, Maine, 30–6, 1966.
Published References
Wilmerding, John. Fitz Hugh Lane: The First Major Exhibition. Lincoln, MA: De Cordova Museum; in association with Colby College Art Museum, 1966., no. 60. ⇒ includes 
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Paintings and Drawings by Fitz Hugh Lane. Gloucester, MA: Cape Ann Historical Association, 1974., fig. 24.
Commentary
Gloucester businessman and philanthropist Samuel Sawyer was a good patron and friend of Lane's. This drawing of Fresh Water Cove, used for Gloucester from Brookbank, 1848 (inv. 42), is composed from Brookbank, Samuel Sawyer's home. Looking east over Fresh Water Cove towards the Ten Pound Island lighthouse, it shows Sawyer's stone loading wharf where granite quarried up the hill behind the house was put onto stone sloops. The building to the left is believed to have been a boathouse.