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Fitz Henry Lane
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Catalog entry
inv. 186
Steamer "Harvest Moon," Lying at Wharf in Portland
Steamer, "Harvest Moon"
1863 Graphite and photograph on paper 1 sheet of paper 9 3/4 x 10 1/2 in. (24.8 x 26.7 cm) Inscribed: below drawing (in pencil): Lying at Wharf in Portland; Inscribed lower left (in pencil): Painting made by Lane / from the Photograph 1863; Inscribed lower center (in pencil): for Lang + Delano / India Wharf / Boston; Inscribed lower right (in pencil): Introducing her into a sketch of Portland Harbor / taken on our visit in August 1863
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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): 33 [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. 120.
Wilmerding, John. Paintings by Fitz Hugh Lane. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art; in association with Harry N. Abrams, 1988., ill. in b/w p. 122 fig. 2, Steamer "Harvest Moon," Lying at Wharf in Portland.
Wilmerding, John. Fitz Henry Lane. Gloucester, MA: Cape Ann Historical Association, 2005. Reprint of Fitz Hugh Lane, by John Wilmerding. New York: Praeger, 1971. Includes new information regarding the artist's name., ill. 50.
Craig, James. Fitz H. Lane: An Artist's Voyage through Nineteenth-Century America. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2006., fig. 97.
Wilmerding, John. Fitz Henry Lane & Mary Blood Mellen: Old Mysteries and New Discoveries. New York: Spanierman Gallery, 2007., fig. 14, p. 29, Steamer, "Harvest Moon". ⇒ includes text
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