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Fitz Henry Lane
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Catalog entry
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inv. 445
View of the Old Building at the corner of Ann St., Boston, Mass.
View of the Old Building at the Corner of Ann St, Boston; View of the Old Building at the Corner of Ann Street, Boston, Mass.
1835 Lithograph on paper 6 3/8 x 8 1/16 in. (16.2 x 20.5 cm)
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Exhibition History
John Wilmerding, William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, Rockland, Maine, Fitz Hugh Lane 1804-1805, July 12–September 15, 1974., no. 1, lent by the Boston Athenaeum. [Impression: Boston Athenaeum (inv. 503)].
Boston Athenaeum, Boston, Massachusetts, The Fountainhead of American Lithography: Prints from the Pendleton Shop 1825-1836, February, 1977. [Impression: Boston Athenaeum (inv. 503)].
Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Massachusetts, Drawn From Nature & on Stone: The Lithographs of Fitz Henry Lane, October 7, 2017–March 4, 2018. [Impression: Boston Athenaeum (inv. 503)].
Published References
Wilmderding, John. "The Lithographs of Fitz Hugh Lane." Old-Time New England LIV, no. 2 (October–December 1963)., p. 33.
Wilmerding, John. Fitz Hugh Lane, 1804–1865: American Marine Painter. Salem, MA: The Essex Institute, 1964., p.66 no.142.
Fitz Hugh Lane 1804-1865. Rockland, ME: William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, 1974., no. 1. [Impression: Boston Athenaeum (inv. 503)].
Crossman, Carl L. "Lithographs of Fitz Hugh Lane." In American Maritime Prints, edited by Elton W. Hall. New Bedford, MA: The Whaling Museum by the Old Dartmouth Historical Society, 1987, pp. 63–94. The Proceedings of the Eighth Annual North American Print Conference held at the Whaling Museum, New Bedford, Mass., May 6–7, 1977., p.69-70. ⇒ includes 
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Wilmerding, John. Paintings by Fitz Hugh Lane. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art; in association with Harry N. Abrams, 1988., p.10. [Impression: Worcester Art Museum (inv. 87)].
Wilmerding, John. Fitz Henry Lane. Gloucester, MA: Cape Ann Historical Association, 2005. Reprint of Fitz Hugh Lane, by John Wilmerding. New York: Praeger, 1971. Includes new information regarding the artist's name., ill. 3, text, p. 21. [Impression: Boston Athenaeum (inv. 503)].
Craig, James. Fitz H. Lane: An Artist's Voyage through Nineteenth-Century America. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2006., fig. 16, text, pp. 49-50. [Impression: Boston Athenaeum (inv. 503)].
Barnhill, Trafton. Drawn from Nature & on Stone: the Lithographs of Fitz Henry Lane. Gloucester, MA: Cape Ann Museum, 2017., fig. 3, text, pp. 11-12, View of the Old Building at the Corner of Ann St, Boston. [Impression: Boston Athenaeum (inv. 503)]. ⇒ includes text
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American Antiquarian Society (inv. 368)
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Photo: Courtesy, American Antiquarian Society (inv. 368)
Printed under image from left to right: Drawn by F.H. Lane, _1835 Pendleton's Lithography, Boston. / VIEW OF THE OLD BUILDING AT THE CORNER OF ANN ST. / BOSTON, MASS.
American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass. (151001)
Provenance
American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass.
Boston Athenaeum (inv. 503)
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Photo: Boston Athenaeum (inv. 503)
View of the Old Building at the Corner of Ann St, Boston
Printed under image left to right: Drawn by F.H. Lane, - 1835 Pendleton's Lithography, Boston.
Boston Athenaeum
Provenance
Boston Athenaeum
Princeton University Library Rare Books and Special Collections (inv. 743)
Princeton University Library Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton, New Jersey. Gift of Leonard L. Milberg, Princeton University Class of 1953. (Milberg.Views 1983.10)
Provenance
Princeton University Library Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton, New Jersey
Worcester Art Museum (inv. 87)
View of the Old Building at the Corner of Ann Street, Boston, Mass.
Printed under image from left to right: Drawn by F.H. Lane, _1835 Pendleton's Lithography, Boston. / VIEW OF THE OLD BUILDING AT THE CORNER OF ANN ST. / BOSTON, MASS.
Worcester Art Museum, Mass., Charles E. Goodspeed Collection
Provenance
Worcester Art Museum, Mass.
Commentary
The building to the left in this 1835 hand-colored lithographic view of Boston was known as The Old Feather Shop, or sometimes The Old Cocked Hat. It was built in 1680, used for a variety of commercial purposes over the years, and razed in 1860. At the time Fitz Henry Lane sketched it, the building was home to John Simpson’s upholstery shop. To the right, across the cobble-stoned intersection is Faneuil Hall.
Although small in size, the complexity of this composition divulges Lane’s mastery of perspective while the subtly shifting tones of the image reveal his skill with the lithographic crayon. Pendleton’s workshop was a training ground for young artists like Lane during the 1830s, a time when few other opportunities for artistic advancement existed in the region.