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Catalog entry

inv. 136
Bear Island from Western Side of N. East Harbour
1855
Graphite on paper (2 sheets)
10 5/8 x 21 1/4 in. (27 x 54 cm)
Inscribed lower center (in pencil): Bear Island from Western Side of N. East Harbour, / two parts F.H. Lane / del. / Sept. 1855; Inscribed lower right (in pencil): Two Parts / Lane – Hooper – Stevens Painting made from this sketch presented to Joseph S. Hooper of Dubuque Iowa as a memento of our excursion

Supplementary Images

Viewpoint chart showing Lane's location when making this image
Photo: © Erik Ronnberg/U.S. Coast Survey

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): 36 [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. 58.
Wilmerding, John. "Fitz Hugh Lane." The Artist's Mount Desert: American Painters on the Maine Coast. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994, pp. 45–67., fig. 54, p. 61. ⇒ includes text

Related historical materials

Maine Locales & Buildings
Vessel Types
Flags, Lighthouses, & Navigation Aids
People
Citation: "Bear Island from Western Side of N. East Harbour, 1855 (inv. 136)." Fitz Henry Lane Online. Cape Ann Museum. http://fitzhenrylaneonline.org/catalog/entry.php?id=136 (accessed April 20, 2024).
Record last updated December 4, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
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