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Fitz Henry Lane
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Catalog entry
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inv. 177
View of Bar Island and Mount Desert Mountains, from the Bay in Front of Somes Settlement
1850 Graphite on paper (2 sheets) 9 3/8 x 17 1/2 in. (23.8 x 44.4 cm) Inscribed: Inscribed upper left (in pencil): Boat "General gates" / Pilot Gatchell from Castine / Lane-del / Tilden / Stevens / Adams / } companions; Inscribed center (in pencil): "Gen. Gates" / Capt. Getchell / Encampment; Inscribed lower right (in pencil): View of Bar Island and / Mount Desert Mountains / from the bay in front of / Some's Settlement / Augt 1850
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Supplementary Images
Chart showing Lane's location when making this drawing
Chart showing Lane's location when making this drawing (detail)
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): 16 [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. 111.
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., fig. 43, p.50, View of Bar Island and Mount Desert Mountains, from the Bay in Front of Somes Settlement. ⇒ includes 
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