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Fitz Henry Lane
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Catalog entry
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inv. 208
Castine from Fort George
1850 Graphite on paper 9 3/8 x 32 3/4 in. (23.8 x 83.2 cm) Inscribed lower center (in pencil): Castine from Fort George Aug 1850; Inscribed lower right (in pencil): A Painting was made from this sketch and presented to my father
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Related Work in the Catalog
Supplementary Images
Viewpoint diagram to show Lane's location when making the drawing (overview)
Viewpoint diagram to show Lane's location when making the 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, (Cape Ann Scientific, Literary and Historical Association) Gloucester, Mass., Gift of Samuel H. Mansfield, 1927. (485.24)
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine, 1965 (sold to)
Marks & Labels
Marks: Inscribed upper left (in red ink): 24 [numbering system used by curator A. M. Brooks upon Samuel H. Mansfield's donation of the drawings to the Cape Ann Museum]
Exhibition History
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts, Fitz Hugh Lane: The First Major Exhibition, March 20–April 17, 1966., no. 61.
Traveled to: Colby College Art Museum, Waterville, Maine, 30–6, 1966.
Traveled to: Colby College Art Museum, Waterville, Maine, 30–6, 1966.
John Wilmerding, William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, Rockland, Maine, Fitz Hugh Lane 1804-1805, July 12–September 15, 1974., no. 6, lent by the William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum.
Colby College, Waterville, Maine, Maine Forms of American Architecture, 1975., Castine from Fort George, lent by the William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum.
Colby College, Waterville, Maine, Drawings from Maine Collections, May 14–June 30, 1978., Castine from Fort George, lent by the William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum.
Published References
Wilmerding, John. Fitz Hugh Lane: The First Major Exhibition. Lincoln, MA: De Cordova Museum; in association with Colby College Art Museum, 1966., no. 61. ⇒ includes 
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Fitz Hugh Lane 1804-1865. Rockland, ME: William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, 1974., no. 6.
Thompson, Deborah. Maine Forms of American Architecture. Colby College Art Museum/Downeast Magazine, 1976., Castine from Fort George.
Commentary
Most of the inscriptions on Lane's drawings are believed to be by his friend and the executor of his estate, Joseph Stevens, Jr. This has led to some confusion about the original owner of the painting made after this drawing, now thought to be Joseph Stevens, Sr.