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Fitz Henry Lane
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Catalog entry
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inv. 178
Somes Sound, Looking Southerly
1850 Graphite on paper (3 sheets) 9 3/8 x 19 3/4 in. (23.8 x 50.2 cm) Inscribed lower center (in pencil): Somes Sound / Looking Southerly / F.H.Lane August 1850 / Lane made this sketch sitting in the stern of the boat General Gates as we slowly sailed up the sound at Mt. Desert / on a lovely afternoon of our first excursion there. He painted a small picture from this his first sketch of that evening. / It was sold by Balch to Mrs. Josiah Quincy Jr. and to Mackay; Inscribed on lower edge of both sheets (in pencil): Some's Sound, looking Southerly; Inscribed lower right (in pencil): Lane / Stevens / Tilden / Adams
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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 right (in red ink): 19 [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. 112.
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. 41 p.48. ⇒ includes 
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