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Welcome to Fitz Henry Lane Online

Fitz Henry Lane Online is a freely-accessible interactive and interdisciplinary online resource created by the Cape Ann Museum. The website is organized around a catalogue of the paintings, drawings, and lithographs of nineteenth-century American painter Fitz Henry Lane (1804–1865).

The Cape Ann Museum, located in Gloucester, Massachusetts, (Lane’s birthplace and home for most of his life) has the world’s largest collection of Lane’s paintings, drawings, lithographs, and related material. The website is intended to provide information of interest to a broad audience, and to serve as a resource for information and analysis of Lane’s work. The website focuses on both the formal, aesthetic qualities and provides detailed information on the historical context of his pictures. For more see About the Project.

Babson and Ellery Houses, Gloucester, 1863 (inv. 10). Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Mass., Gift of Roger W. Babson, 1937 (779.02)

Explore the Works in the Catalogue

Untitled, n.d. (inv. 230)
Untitled, n.d. (inv. 230)
Castine from Fort George, 1856 (inv. 404)
Castine from Fort George, 1856 (inv. 404)
Untitled, n.d. (inv. 286)
Untitled, n.d. (inv. 286)
Untitled, n.d. (inv. 287)
Untitled, n.d. (inv. 287)
Gloucester Inner Harbor, 1850 (inv. 240)
Gloucester Inner Harbor, 1850 (inv. 240)
Wreck of the Roma, 1846 (inv. 250)
Wreck of the Roma, 1846 (inv. 250)
The Nahant Quadrilles, 1836 (inv. 85)
The Nahant Quadrilles, 1836 (inv. 85)
Sooloo Pirate's Proa, 1850s (inv. 195)
Sooloo Pirate's Proa, 1850s (inv. 195)
A Smart Blow, c.1856 (inv. 9)
A Smart Blow, c.1856 (inv. 9)
Music sheet design, 1840s (inv. 201)
Music sheet design, 1840s (inv. 201)
View of City of Washington, 1838 (inv. 450)
Ships in a Squall, 1849 (inv. 599)
Ships in a Squall, 1849 (inv. 599)
Becalmed Off Halfway Rock, 1860 (inv. 344)
Becalmed Off Halfway Rock, 1860 (inv. 344)
The Ariel Waltz, n.d. (inv. 469)
The Ariel Waltz, n.d. (inv. 469)
View in Boston Harbour, c.1836 (inv. 479)
View in Boston Harbour, c.1836 (inv. 479)
The Mad Girl's Song, 1840 (inv. 474)
The Mad Girl's Song, 1840 (inv. 474)
Northern Light, c.1851 (inv. 792)
Northern Light, c.1851 (inv. 792)
Maniac, 1840 (inv. 473)
Maniac, 1840 (inv. 473)
The Cape Ann Museum is grateful to the following organizations for their support of Fitz Henry Lane Online:
Wyeth Foundation for American Art National Endowment for the Arts Institute of Museum and Library Science Thomfohrde Foundation Danversbank Charitable Foundation