Entrance of Somes Sound, Mount Desert, Maine

1855

Fitz Henry Lane

Associated Names
Fitz Henry Lane

Artist, American, 1804 - 1865

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    graphite on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    John Wilmerding Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 27.31 × 40.64 cm (10 3/4 × 16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2025.89.31

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Cape Ann Historical Association, Gloucester, Masschusetts; deaccessioned 1965 by the association; acquired 1965 by John Wilmerding.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2004

  • American Masters from Bingham to Eakins: The John Wilmerding Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004, no. 32, repro.

Bibliography

1971

  • Wilmerding, John. Fitz Hugh Lane. New York,1971: 62-63, 68, no. 65.

1994

  • Wilmerding, John. The Artist's Mount Desert: American Painters on the Maine Coast. Princeton, 1994: 60-61, 186, 52.

Inscriptions

"Entrance of Somes Sound / from back of the Island House / at South West Harbor Mt. Desert" upper center margin, graphite, artist's hand. "Sept. 1855 Lane-Hooper-Stevens" upper right margin, graphite, artist's hand. "F.H. Lane del." lower right composition, graphite.

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