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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.

The Western Shore with Norman's Woe, 1862 (inv. 18). Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Mass., Gift of Isabel Babson Lane, 1946 (1147.c)

Explore the Works in the Catalogue

Sicilian Vespers, c.1832 (inv. 486)
Sicilian Vespers, c.1832 (inv. 486)
Norman's Woe Rock, n.d. (inv. 284)
Norman's Woe Rock, n.d. (inv. 284)
Lifting the Mortgage, n.d. (inv. 488)
Lifting the Mortgage, n.d. (inv. 488)
View in Town Parish, 1863 (inv. 126)
View in Town Parish, 1863 (inv. 126)
Beached Hull, 1862 (inv. 191)
Beached Hull, 1862 (inv. 191)
New York Harbor, 1852 (inv. 345)
New York Harbor, 1852 (inv. 345)
Close Hauled in a Gale, c.1850 (inv. 254)
Close Hauled in a Gale, c.1850 (inv. 254)
Untitled, 1855 (inv. 236)
Untitled, 1855 (inv. 236)
Rafes Chasm, 1853 (inv. 597)
Rafes Chasm, 1853 (inv. 597)
Wreck of the Roma, 1846 (inv. 250)
Wreck of the Roma, 1846 (inv. 250)
"Samuel Lawrence", 1851 (inv. 252)
"Samuel Lawrence", 1851 (inv. 252)
View in Gloucester Harbor, 1850s (inv. 143)
View in Gloucester Harbor, 1850s (inv. 143)
From West Manchester Shore, 1850s (inv. 162)
From West Manchester Shore, 1850s (inv. 162)
Bowdoin College, Brunswick Me., c.1844 (inv. 441)
New York Yacht Club Regatta (3), After 1856 (inv. 396)
New York Yacht Club Regatta (3), After 1856 (inv. 396)
Shooting Seabirds, c.1842 (inv. 789)
Shooting Seabirds, c.1842 (inv. 789)
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