1979.242: Penobscot Bay, Maine

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1979.242

People

Fitz Henry Lane, American (Gloucester, MA 1804 - 1865 Gloucester, MA)

Title

Penobscot Bay, Maine

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1850

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/309193

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on three joined sheets of off-white wove paper

Dimensions

overall: 23.9 × 77.4 cm (9 7/16 × 30 1/2 in.)
left sheet: 23.9 × 26.3 cm (9 7/16 × 10 3/8 in.)
center sheet: 28.4 × 26.3 cm (11 3/16 × 10 3/8 in.)
right sheet: 26.5 × 26.3 cm (10 7/16 × 10 3/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: graphite, l.r: F. H. Lane / del.
• inscription: l.r., graphite, in artist's hand: Present with him J. L. Stevens Jr
• inscription: upper edge, graphite, in artist's hand: Penobscot Bay from Buck's Harbor Hill. Aug. / 1850
• inscription: u.l., graphite, erased, in artist's hand: [ ] the granite quarry
• inscription: upper center, graphite, erased, in artist's hand: Buck's Harbor
• inscription: u.r., graphite, erased, in artist's hand: Buck's Harbor & Penobscot Bay from the Hill
• inscription: u.l., graphite: 23 [inscribed twice]
• inscription: in image, graphite, in artist's hand: Spooner Head
• inscription: old backing, now in curatorial file, graphite: 7/20/78 Extreme left good view of [inserted: 170 acres] Bradbury Island, being given to Maine Conservancy by my friend and colleage [sic], David P. Becker / The next long island is [Thos.?] Cabots Butter Island.
• stamp: old backing, now in curatorial file, red and black ink, stamped and handwritten: [stamped in red ink:] Framed By / [stamped in black ink:] Holman's Print Shop, Inc. / Boston, Massachusetts No [inscribed in red ink:] 734166
• exhibition label: removed from backing, now in curatorial file, paper, printed, typed and handwritten: [inscribed in red pencil:] #63
• label: removed from backing, now in curatorial file, black felt-tip: 48

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Fitz Henry Lane, bequest; to Joseph L. Stevens, Jr., Gloucester, Massachusetts, to; Samuel H. Mansfield, Gloucester, Massachusetts, gift; to Cape Ann Historical Association, sold; to Philip and Frances L. Hofer, May 1965, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1979

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Frances L. Hofer

Accession Year

1979

Object Number

1979.242

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Pinhole at u.l.c.

Publication History

• John Wilmerding, Fitz Hugh Lane, 1804-1865, American Marine Painter, Essex Institute (Salem, MA, 1964), p. 75, no. 252
• John Wilmerding, Fitz Hugh Lane: The First Major Exhibition, exh. cat., De Cordova Museum (Lincoln, MA, 1966), no. 63
• Eunice Williams, Master Drawings and Watercolors: The Hofer Collection, exh. cat., ed. Konrad Oberhuber and William W. Robinson, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1984), cat. no. 48, pp. 56-57, repr. p. 127

Exhibition History

• Fitz Hugh Lane: The First Major Exhibition, De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, 03/20/1966 - 04/17/1966; Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, 04/30/1966 - 06/06/1966
• Master Drawings and Watercolors: The Hofer Collection, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, 04/15/1984 - 07/07/1984; Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/05/1984 - 11/29/1984

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