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Catalog entry
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inv. 448
Castine, from Hospital Island
Castine; Castine from Hospital Hill; Castine from Hospital Island; Castine from Hospital Island 1855; Castine, Maine, from Hospital Island
1855 Lithograph with tint stone 19 11/16 x 32 11/16 in. (50 x 83 cm) Sheet: 26 1/8 x 37 3/8 in. (66.3 x 95 cm) Signed lower left: Lower left: F.H. Lane del.
Lower right: L.H. Bradford & Cos. Lith. Lower center: Castine, from Hospital Island 1855 Published by Joseph L. Stevens Jr. Collections:
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Supplementary Images
Viewpoint map showing Lane's location when making this image
Exhibition History
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, M. & M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors & Drawings, 1800–1875., October 18, 1962–January 6, 1963. [Impression: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (inv. 529)].
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts, Fitz Hugh Lane: The First Major Exhibition, March 20–April 17, 1966., no. 78. [Impression: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (inv. 529)]
Traveled to: Colby College Art Museum, Waterville, Maine, 30–6, 1966.
Traveled to: Colby College Art Museum, Waterville, Maine, 30–6, 1966.
John Wilmerding, William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, Rockland, Maine, Fitz Hugh Lane 1804-1805, July 12–September 15, 1974., no. 13, lent by the William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, November 21, 1988–June 12, 1989. [Impression: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (inv. 529)].
Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, The American Print: Originality and Experimentation, September 24–December 4, 1992. [Impression: Yale University Art Gallery (inv. 321)]
Traveled to: William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Conn., 26–12, 1993.
Traveled to: William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Conn., 26–12, 1993.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, April 26–December 20, 1993. [Impression: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (inv. 529)].
Published References
[Impression: The Mariners' Museum (inv. 412)].
M. & M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors & Drawings, 1800–1875. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1962., no. 491. [Impression: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (inv. 529)].
Sharf, Frederic Alan. "Fitz Hugh Lane: Visits to the Maine Coast, 1848–55." Essex Institute Historical Collections 98 (April 1962)., fig.2, p.110, text, p.119. ⇒ includes 
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Wilmderding, John. "The Lithographs of Fitz Hugh Lane." Old-Time New England LIV, no. 2 (October–December 1963)., p. 37, Castine from Hospital Hill.
Wilmerding, John. Fitz Hugh Lane, 1804–1865: American Marine Painter. Salem, MA: The Essex Institute, 1964., p. 44.
The American Neptune, Pictorial Supplement VII: A Selection of Marine Paintings by Fitz Hugh Lane, 1804–1865. Salem, MA: The American Neptune, 1965., plate XXIII, no. 176, Castine from Hospital Hill. ⇒ includes text
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Wilmerding, John. Fitz Hugh Lane: The First Major Exhibition. Lincoln, MA: De Cordova Museum; in association with Colby College Art Museum, 1966., no. 78, Castine, from Hospital Island. [Impression: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (inv. 529)]. ⇒ includes text
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Wilmerding, John. "Fitz Hugh Lane's Paintings Down East." Down East (April 1966)., ill., p. 25. [Impression: The Mariners' Museum (inv. 412)]. ⇒ includes text
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Fitz Hugh Lane 1804-1865. Rockland, ME: William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, 1974., no. 13, Castine.
Wilson Museum. "A Cruise with Fitz Hugh Lane." Wilson Museum Bulletin vol. 2 no.2 (Winter 1974-75). ⇒ includes text
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Reps, John W. Views and Viewmakers of Urban America: Lithographs of Towns and Cities in the United States and Canada, Notes on the Artists and Publishers, and a Union Catalog of their Work,1825-1925. Columbia: University of Missouri Press., no. 1197, p.315.
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., fig. 18, p.93. [Impression: Peabody Essex Museum (inv. 580)]. ⇒ includes text
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Pierce, Sally, and Catharina Slautterback. Boston Lithography, 1825–1880: The Boston Atheneaum Collection. Boston: Boston Athenaeum, 1991., fig. 79. [Impression: Boston Athenaeum (inv. 506)].
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., pp.59-60. ⇒ includes text
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Davis, Elliot Bostwick. "American Drawing Books and Their Impact on Fitz Hugh Lane." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 105, part 1 (1995)., p. 87. ⇒ includes text
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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. 21, text, pp. 30-31, Castine from Hospital Island 1855. [Impression: The Mariners' Museum (inv. 412)].
Craig, James. Fitz H. Lane: An Artist's Voyage through Nineteenth-Century America. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2006., fig. 75. [Impression: Boston Athenaeum (inv. 506)].
Newton, Travers, and Marcia Steele. "The Series Paintings of Fitz Henry Lane: From Field Sketch to Studio Painting." In Emil Bosshard, Paintings Conservator (1945–2006): Essays by Friends and Colleagues, edited by Maria de Peverelli, Mario Grassi, and Hans-Christoph von Imhoff. Florence: Centro Di, 2009, pp. 194–215., p. 200. ⇒ includes text
textImpression information
Boston Athenaeum (inv. 506)
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Photo: Boston Athenaeum (inv. 506)
Castine from Hospital Island 1855
Lower right corner of sheet: illegible inscription
Printed under image left to right: F.H. Lane del., L.H. Bradford & Co's Lith.
Boston Athenaeum, Gift of Charles E. Mason, Jr., 1977 (1977.67a)
Provenance
Charles E. Mason, Jr.
Boston Athenaeum, October 1977
Harvard Art Museums/ Fogg Museum (inv. 246)
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Photo: Imaging Department
President & Fellows of Harvard College (inv. 246)
President & Fellows of Harvard College (inv. 246)
Castine from Hospital Island
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Mass., Bequest of Frances L. Hofer (M19821)
Provenance
the Artist, Gloucester, Mass.
Philip and Frances Hofer, Cambridge, Mass.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Mass.
The Mariners' Museum (inv. 412)
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Photo: Mariners' Museum (inv. 412)
Castine from Hospital Island 1855
Signed lower center: Castine - From Hospital Island 1855 - Published by Joseph L. Stevens, Jr., F.H. Lane, del., L.H. Bradford & Cos. Lith.
Courtesy of The Mariners' Museum, Newport News, Va. (1936.0962.000001 / LP1101)
Provenance
The Old Print Shop, New York, New York, 1936?
The Mariners' Museum, Newport News, Va., 1936
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (inv. 529)
Castine, Maine, from Hospital Island
F.H. Lane del; L H Bradford Co's Lith; Castine/ From Hospital Island/ 1855/ Published by Joseph L. Stevens Jr.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875 (56.403)
Provenance
Maxim Karolik, Newport, R.I.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1956
Peabody Essex Museum (inv. 580)
Castine from Hospital Island
F.H. Lane, del. L.H. Bradford & Co.'s Lith.
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts (M11196)
Provenance
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts
Wilson Museum (inv. 679)
Signed lower left: Lower left: F.H. Lane del.
Lower right: L.H. Bradford &Cos. Lith.
Lower center: Castine, from Hospital Island 1855
Published by Joseph L. Stevens Jr.
Wilson Museum, Castine, Maine (A00328)
Provenance
Wilson Museum, Castine, Maine
Yale University Art Gallery (inv. 321)
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Photo: Yale University Art Gallery (inv. 321)
Signed lower left: In stone, F.H. Lane del.
Lower right: L.H. Bradford &Cos. Lith.
Lower center: Castine, from Hospital Island.
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., Everett V. Meeks, B.A. 1901, Fund (1989.10.1)
Provenance
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1989
Commentary
This lithograph was designed by Lane, and perhaps transferred by him to stone. Joseph Stevens Jr. was the publisher and it was printed at L.H. Bradford in Boston.
Lane visited Castine (Maine) often with his friend Joseph L. Stevens Jr. Stevens's extended family was in Gloucester, but he had grown up in Castine, and his parents and siblings still lived there. A relatively easy overnight steamer trip from Gloucester, Castine provided a nice summer vacation spot for Stevens and Lane.
As early as 1851, Dr. Joseph Stevens Sr. encouraged Lane to make a print of the town of Castine. He argued that the only other print of Castine (made by an artist named Harmon in the 1840s) was poorly drawn, and that Lane would be able to easily sell his own view of the town. After this print was made in 1855, Stevens and his family helped to promote it and sold it to their friends.
The print shows Castine from the east, across the water from Hospital Island. Fort George is visible on top of the hill above Castine, as is the distinctive steeple of the First Parish Church.