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inv. 156
View at Bass Rocks Looking Eastward
1850s
Graphite on paper (3 sheets)
10 1/4 x 43 1/2 in. (26 x 110.5 cm)
Inscribed lower left (in pencil): View at Bass Rocks Looking Eastward / F.H. Lane / del. / Sketch for a Picture for John J. Piper / G[...] Rogers

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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): 78 [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. 90.
Craig, James. Fitz H. Lane: An Artist's Voyage through Nineteenth-Century America. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2006., fig. 50.

Related historical materials

Cape Ann Locales
Flags, Lighthouses, & Navigation Aids
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Citation: "View at Bass Rocks Looking Eastward, 1850s (inv. 156)." Fitz Henry Lane Online. Cape Ann Museum. http://fhlanecatalog.com/catalog/entry.php?id=156 (accessed November 23, 2024).
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