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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

Rowers Frigate, 1848 (inv. 304)
Rowers Frigate, 1848 (inv. 304)
Castine from Heights East of Negro Island, 1855 (inv. 168)
Castine from Heights East of Negro Island, 1855 (inv. 168)
Ten Pound Island from Pavilion Beach, 1850s (inv. 15)
Ten Pound Island from Pavilion Beach, 1850s (inv. 15)
Gloucester from Brookbank, 1848 (inv. 42)
Gloucester from Brookbank, 1848 (inv. 42)
Western Shore of Gloucester Outer Harbor, 1857 (inv. 107)
Western Shore of Gloucester Outer Harbor, 1857 (inv. 107)
Mount Desert Sketch, 1850s (inv. 185)
Mount Desert Sketch, 1850s (inv. 185)
Entrance of Somes Sound, Mount Desert, Maine, 1855 (inv. 347)
Entrance of Somes Sound, Mount Desert, Maine, 1855 (inv. 347)
Baltimore Harbor, 1850 (inv. 400)
Baltimore Harbor, 1850 (inv. 400)
New York Harbor, c.1855 (inv. 46)
New York Harbor, c.1855 (inv. 46)
Pretty Pet, n.d. (inv. 489)
Pretty Pet, n.d. (inv. 489)
View of Lowell, Mass., n.d. (inv. 444)
View of Lowell, Mass., n.d. (inv. 444)
Looking Toward the Loaf from Cross' Island, Essex River, 1862 (inv. 215)
Looking Toward the Loaf from Cross' Island, Essex River, 1862 (inv. 215)
View of Baltimore, from Federal Hill, 1850 (inv. 493)
View of Baltimore, from Federal Hill, 1850 (inv. 493)
Lanesville, The Mill, 1849 (inv. 93)
Lanesville, The Mill, 1849 (inv. 93)
Jonathan L. Stevens House, n.d. (inv. 282)
Jonathan L. Stevens House, n.d. (inv. 282)
Lifting the Mortgage, n.d. (inv. 488)
Lifting the Mortgage, n.d. (inv. 488)
Capt. E. G. Austin's Quick Step, "A Yankee Ship and a Yankee Crew", 1837 (inv. 480)
Capt. E. G. Austin's Quick Step, "A Yankee Ship and a Yankee Crew", 1837 (inv. 480)
Bear Island from the South, 1855 (inv. 134)
Bear Island from the South, 1855 (inv. 134)
View of Gloucester Harbor, Late 1855–60 (inv. 96)
View of Gloucester Harbor, Late 1855–60 (inv. 96)
New York Yacht Club Regatta (4), 1857 (inv. 397)
New York Yacht Club Regatta (4), 1857 (inv. 397)
View of the City of Bangor, ME, Copyright 1835 by William A. Gilman and Alex H. Wallace (inv. 478)
View of the City of Bangor, ME, Copyright 1835 by William A. Gilman and Alex H. Wallace (inv. 478)
Beach and Pavilion, 1850s (inv. 101)
Beach and Pavilion, 1850s (inv. 101)
Boston Harbor, c.1850 (inv. 48)
Boston Harbor, c.1850 (inv. 48)
Merchantmen Off Boston Harbor, 1853 (inv. 267)
Merchantmen Off Boston Harbor, 1853 (inv. 267)
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