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inv. 157
Folly Cove, Lanesville - Gloucester
1864
Graphite on paper (2 sheets)
9 1/4 x 28 1/4 in. (23.5 x 71.8 cm)
Inscribed lower left (in pencil): Lane and Champney took a drive around the Cape. Champney sketched Folly Cove in colors, Lane in pencil. This was his last excursion in that vicinity. He made one painting from the sketch.; Inscribed lower right (in pencil): Folly Cove – Lanesville – Gloucester / F.H. Lane del. July 1864
Inscribed verso (in pencil): S.H.M. [Samuel H. Mansfield]

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): 102 [numbering system used by curator A. M. Brooks upon Samuel H. Mansfield's donation of the drawings to the Cape Ann Museum]

Exhibition History

Cape Ann Historical Association, Gloucester, Massachusetts, Training the Eye and Hand: Fitz Hugh Lane and Nineteenth Century American Drawing Books, September 17, 1993–January 29, 1994.

Published References

Paintings and Drawings by Fitz Hugh Lane. Gloucester, MA: Cape Ann Historical Association, 1974., fig. 91.

Related historical materials

Cape Ann Locales
Vessel Types
Maritime & Other Industries & Facilities
Contemporary Artists
Citation: "Folly Cove, Lanesville - Gloucester, 1864 (inv. 157)." Fitz Henry Lane Online. Cape Ann Museum. http://fhlanecatalog.com/catalog/entry.php?id=157 (accessed November 23, 2024).
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