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Castine Harbor and Town
Fitz Henry Lane (American, 1804–1865)
August 1851
Medium/Technique
Watercolor over graphite, panorama on two joined sheets of moderately thick, cream wove paper
Dimensions
Sight: 26 x 79.3 cm (10 1/4 x 31 1/4 in.)
Framed: 47.6 x 99.7 cm (18 3/4 x 39 1/4 in.)
Framed: 47.6 x 99.7 cm (18 3/4 x 39 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number54.1727
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsWatercolors
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik cat. no 489, fig. 108
DescriptionPanoramic view on two joined sheets. Sailboat; town across water, fields foreground.
InscriptionsInscribed upper left in brown ink: Castine harbor and town from American battery of 1779 at Hainey's Point, a short way northerly of Henry's Point of later time. / Fitz Henry [sic] Land of Gloucester, Mass., made this sketch for Noah Brooks in August 1851, and on its acceptance an oil painting. / In his will of date Nov. 30, 1900 Mr. Brooks bequethed the painting to the town of Castine "for the public library."
ProvenanceMaxim Karolik (b. 1893 - d. 1963), Newport, RI; 1954, gift of Maxim Karolik to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 9, 1954)