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Catalog entry

inv. 183
North East Harbor, Mount Desert
1850
Graphite on paper
9 1/2 x 20 3/4 in. (24.1 x 52.7 cm)
Signed and dated: F. H. Lane del. Inscribed lower center (in pencil): Aug. 1850 / Taken from the Boat "General Gates" at anchor / by F.H. Lane; Inscribed upper left (in pencil): Lane / Tilden / Stevens / Adams

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): 21 [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. 117.
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. 40, North East Harbor, Mount Desert. ⇒ includes text
Citation: "North East Harbor, Mount Desert, 1850 (inv. 183)." Fitz Henry Lane Online. Cape Ann Museum. http://fitzhenrylaneonline.org/catalog/entry.php?id=183 (accessed March 28, 2024).
Record last updated February 15, 2017. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
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