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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.

Stage Rocks and the Western Shore of Gloucester Outer Harbor, 1857 (inv. 8). Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Mass., Gift of Estate of Catalina Davis, 1932 (642.13c)

Explore the Works in the Catalogue

Northern Light, c.1851 (inv. 792)
Northern Light, c.1851 (inv. 792)
Brace's Rock, Eastern Point, 1863 (inv. 146)
Ships off Massachusetts Coast, Late 1850 (inv. 398)
Ships off Massachusetts Coast, Late 1850 (inv. 398)
Off Owl's Head, Maine, 1852 (inv. 22)
Off Owl's Head, Maine, 1852 (inv. 22)
Mount Desert Sketch, 1850s (inv. 185)
Mount Desert Sketch, 1850s (inv. 185)
Norman's Woe, 1861 (inv. 114)
Norman's Woe, 1861 (inv. 114)
Maniac, 1840 (inv. 473)
Maniac, 1840 (inv. 473)
Tree Study, c.1864 (inv. 121)
Tree Study, c.1864 (inv. 121)
Two Vessels, 1850s (inv. 193)
Two Vessels, 1850s (inv. 193)
Rock Study, c.1856 (inv. 116)
Rock Study, c.1856 (inv. 116)
View of Gloucester, 1859 (inv. 91)
View of Gloucester, 1859 (inv. 91)
"Samuel Lawrence", 1851 (inv. 252)
"Samuel Lawrence", 1851 (inv. 252)
View of Gloucester Harbor, 1858 (inv. 793)
View of Gloucester Harbor, 1858 (inv. 793)
Seashore Sketch, 1854 (inv. 2)
Seashore Sketch, 1854 (inv. 2)
Boston Harbor, 1850s (inv. 158)
Boston Harbor, 1850s (inv. 158)
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