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:
Two Unusual Hunting Scenes: Lane's Early Watercolor Shooting Seabirds (1842) and Rafes Chasm (1853), Oil on Canvas
F.H. Lane's First Complete Lithography Exhibition at the Cape Ann MuseumDrawn from Nature & on Stone: The Lithographs of Fitz Henry LaneOCT. 7, 2017—MARCH 4, 2018 |
Explore works in the Catalog using the Interactive Feature![]()
Boston Harbor, c.1850 (inv. 48)
Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Paintings, 1815–1865, by exchange (66.339) ![]()
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) ![]()
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) ![]()
Gloucester Harbor, 1859 (inv. 33)
Collection: Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Mass., Gift of Edwin Barbey, 1981 (2229.00) ![]()
Salem Harbor, 1853 (inv. 53)
Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Bequest of Maxim Karolik (64.465) ![]()
Babson and Ellery Houses, Gloucester, 1863 (inv. 10)
Collection: Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Mass., Gift of Roger W. Babson, 1937 (779.02) » Browse all the works in the catalog. » Browse works by type: » See Fitz Henry Lane works on view at the Cape Ann Museum Historical MaterialsWheel of the "Jamestown" Historical Materials: 1859 Cape Ann Advertiser 12.2.1859 Historical Materials: First Order Fresnel Lens for Thacher Island lighthouse beacon Historical Materials: Browse all Historical Materials » About Fitz Henry LaneEducational Resources |





