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Fitz Henry Lane
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Catalog entry
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inv. 144
Gloucester from Fresh Water Cove
1850s Graphite on paper (4 sheets) 7 x 28 3/4 in. (17.8 x 73 cm) Inscribed lower center: Gloucester from Fresh Water Cove / F.H. Lane del. Mason
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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): 71 [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. 78.
Commentary
Lane often sketched and painted the landscape around Brookbank, the home of Samuel Sawyer. In this drawing, Lane has used four pieces of paper in order to capture the panoramic view of Gloucester Harbor. Similar to the painting View of Gloucester from "Brookbank," the Sawyer Homestead, c.1856 (inv. 95), the composition includes Ten Pound Island, the town of Gloucester, the Fort, and Stage Rocks. In this drawing, Lane has included the fence to his left, which provides an interesting contrast between the foreground and distant town. Two noteworthy but easily overlooked elements of this drawing are the beacon pole on the flat end of Dolliver's Neck (to the right) and the flagpole on top of the hill at the entrance to Freshwater Cove. The distinctive pointed dormers of Lane's own house appear above the Fort in the distance. It is hard to determine what is represented by the smokestack to the right; it is most likely Burnham's planing mill, which is shown on an 1851 map.