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Fitz Henry Lane
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Catalog entry
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inv. 147
Brace's Cove, Eastern Point
1863 Graphite on paper 10 3/4 x 14 7/8 in. (27.3 x 37.8 cm) Inscribed across bottom (in pencil): Brace's Cove Eastern Point / F.H. Lane / Aug 1863
Inscribed lower left (in pencil): FHL / JLS jr / CS / HS; Inscribed lower right (in pencil): Painting ordered from the entire sketch by Mrs. S.G. Rogers of Roxbury. Shortly before his death Lane prepared a canvas 22 x 36 for it, and that was all! |
Related Work in the Catalog
Provenance (Information known to date; research ongoing.)
the Artist, Gloucester, Mass.
Joseph L. Stevens, Jr., Gloucester, Mass.
Samuel H. Mansfield, Gloucester, Mass.
Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Mass., 1927
Marks & Labels
Marks: Inscribed upper left (in red ink): 4 [numbering system used by curator A. M. Brooks upon Samuel H. Mansfield's donation of the drawings to the Cape Ann Museum]
Exhibition History
No known exhibitions.Published References
Paintings and Drawings by Fitz Hugh Lane. Gloucester, MA: Cape Ann Historical Association, 1974., fig. 81.
Wilmerding, John, ed. American Light: The Luminist Movement, 1850–1875. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1980., fig. 115, pp. 111–12.
Kelly, Franklin. American Masters from Bingham to Eakins: The John Wilmerding Collection. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art; in association with Lund Humphries, 2004., fig. 3, p. 93.
American Masters from Bingham to Eakins: The John Wilmerding Collection. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2004., fig. 3, p. 93.
Commentary
This and Brace's Rock, Eastern Point, 1863 (inv. 146) are two halves of the same drawing of Brace's Cove; this sheet is the left half of the drawing. Lane often used several sheets of paper in order to sketch and create a long, horizontal composition. He used these two together to make his well-known paintings of Brace's Cove.
On this side of the canvas is an interesting inscription, presumably by Joseph Stevens, about the fact that Lane started a painting from this drawing, but it remained unfinished in his studio at his death, "and that was all!"