An online project under the direction of the CAPE ANN MUSEUM
Welcome to Fitz Henry Lane OnlineFitz Henry Lane Online is a freely-accessible interactive and interdisciplinary online resource created by the Cape Ann Museum. The website is organized around a catalog of the paintings, drawings, and lithographs of nineteenth-century American painter Fitz Henry Lane (1804–1865). The Cape Ann Museum, located in Gloucester, Massachusetts (Lane’s birthplace and home for most of his life) has the world’s largest collection of Lane’s paintings, drawings, lithographs, and related material. The website is intended to provide information of interest to a broad audience, and to serve as a resource for information and analysis of Lane’s work. The website focuses on both the formal, aesthetic qualities and provides detailed information on the historical context of his pictures. For more see About the Project. News:
Sam Holdsworth and John Wilmerding
Lecture at Cape Ann Museum — Painting the Inhabited Landscape: Fitz H. Lane and the Global Reach of Antebellum AmericaTHURSDAY, JUNE 29, 2023 at 2:00 p.m. |
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Stage Rocks and Western Shore of Gloucester Outer Harbor, 1857 (inv. 348)
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., John Wilmerding Collection, Promised Gift ![]()
Ten Pound Island, Gloucester, 1850s (inv. 17)
Collection: Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Mass., Gift of Bessie Stanwood, 1948 (1238) ![]()
The Old Fort and Ten Pound Island, Gloucester, 1850s (inv. 30)
Collection: Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Mass., Deposited by the Collection of Addison Gilbert Hospital, 1978 (DEP. 201) ![]()
Gloucester Harbor, 1859 (inv. 33)
Collection: Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Mass., Gift of Edwin Barbey, 1981 (2229.00) ![]()
Three Master on the Gloucester Railways, 1857 (inv. 29)
Collection: Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Mass., Deposited by the City of Gloucester, 1952 (DEP. 202) ![]()
Stage Rocks and the Western Shore of Gloucester Outer Harbor, 1857 (inv. 8)
Collection: Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Mass., Gift of Estate of Catalina Davis, 1932 (642.13c) ![]()
New York Harbor, c.1855 (inv. 46)
Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Paintings, 1815–1865 (48.446) » Browse all the works in the catalog. » Browse works by type: » See Fitz Henry Lane works on view at the Cape Ann Museum Historical Materials1859 Cape Ann Advertiser 12.2.1859 Historical Materials: First Order Fresnel Lens for Thacher Island lighthouse beacon Historical Materials: Subscription List and Mailing for "Castine, From Hospital Island" 1855 Historical Materials: 1851 Map of the Towns of Gloucester and Rockport (detail showing wharves) Historical Materials: Browse all Historical Materials » About Fitz Henry LaneEducational Resources |





