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Fitz Henry Lane
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Catalog entry
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inv. 168
Castine from Heights East of Negro Island
1855 Graphite on paper (3 sheets) 6 5/8 x 19 1/2 in. (16.8 x 49.5 cm) Inscribed across bottom (in pencil): Castine from Heights East of Negro Island Sept. 1855 F.H.Lane del.; Inscribed lower right (in pencil): F.H.Lane / Joseph L. Stevens / Joseph L. Stevens Jr.; Inscribed on left (in pencil): Nautilus Islands / Long Islands / Camden Mts / Water
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Supplementary Images
Viewpoint map showing Lane's location when making this drawing (detail)
Viewpoint map showing Lane's location when making this drawing (overall view)
Note: Lane's high per... [more]ch on a hill east of Negro Island allowed him to see over North Isleboro (then called Long Island) to the western shore of Penobscot Bay and the Camden Hills. Mount Megunticook is clearly seen in the left quarter of the drawing's background. Lesser peaks are visible in the middle-left quarter, while yet-lower hills are visible in the two right quarters. It is approximately 20 miles from where Lane made his drawing to Camden Harbor.
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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): 10 [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. 102.
Wilmerding, John. "Fitz Hugh Lane." The Artist's Mount Desert: American Painters on the Maine Coast. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994, pp. 45–67., p. 59. ⇒ includes 
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Commentary
This drawing shows Castine from the northeast, looking out of the harbor, past Nautilus Island, towards Long Island (now called Isleboro) and the mainland and Camden Hills. Noteworthy in this drawing is the distinctive square harbor monument (used as a navigational marker) still existing in Castine. The Negro Island mentioned in the title of this drawing is not the same one (near Camden) depicted by Lane in other works; instead it is a small island in the Bagaduce River northeast of Castine.