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:
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. Mary Blood Mellen Exhibition at Cape Ann Museum |
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Gloucester Harbor, 1847 (inv. 23)
Collection: Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Mass., Gift of Estate of Samuel H. Mansfield, 1949 (1332.20) ![]()
Salem Harbor, 1853 (inv. 53)
Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Bequest of Maxim Karolik (64.465) ![]()
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, 1852 (inv. 38)
Collection: Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Mass., Deposited by the City of Gloucester, 1952. Given to the city by Mrs. Julian James in memory of her grandfather Sidney Mason, 1913 (DEP. 200) ![]()
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 ![]()
Three Master on the Gloucester Railways, 1857 (inv. 29)
Collection: Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Mass., Deposited by the City of Gloucester, 1952 (DEP. 202) ![]()
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) » Browse all the works in the catalog. » Browse works by type: » See Fitz Henry Lane works on view at the Cape Ann Museum Historical MaterialsFirst 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 |





