Stage Rocks and Western Shore of Gloucester Outer Harbor
1857
Fitz Henry Lane
Artist, American, 1804 - 1865
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 62.2 x 99.4 cm (24 1/2 x 39 1/8 in.)
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Accession Number
2025.89.12
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Acquired 1857 by John J. Piper [1824-1869], Gloucester, Massachusetts.[1] (Childs Gallery, Boston); purchased 1960 by John Wilmerding, New York [1938-2024]; bequest 2025 to NGA.
[1] Piper issued the semi-weekly Gloucester News from October 1848 to December 1851.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1970
19th Century America: Paintings and Sculpture, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1970, no. 98, repro.
2004
American Masters from Bingham to Eakins: The John Wilmerding Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004, no. 21, repro.
Bibliography
1964
Wilmerding, John. Fitz Hugh Lane, 1804-1865, American Marine Painter. Salem, Massachusetts, 1964: no. 98, 62, as View of Goucester Shoreline.
1971
Wilmerding, John. Fitz Hugh Lane. New York, 1971: 71-72, pl. 8.
1973
Wilmerding, John, ed. The Genius of American Painting. New York and London, 1973: 21-23, ill. 8.
Gorman, James F., and John Wilmerding. Portrait of a Place: Some American Landscape Painters in Gloucester. Exh. cat., Cape Ann Historical Association, Gloucester, Massachusetts, 1973: 21-22, repro. (not in the exhibition).
2004
"The John Wilmerding Collection: 'A Cause for Celebration.'" Antiques and the Arts Weekly(November 2004): 68.