View of the Town of Gloucester, Mass.
Fitz Henry Lane (American, 1804–1865)
printer Pendleton's Lithography (American, active 1825–1836)
1835–36
- Medium
- lithograph
- Classification
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 47.8 x 62.2 cm (18 13/16 x 24 1/2 in.)
- Culture
- America
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Prints
- Credit line
- Gift of Stephen Dull
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
This print depicts the harbor of Gloucester, where Fitz Henry Lane was born. A center for fishing, the town is depicted here as centered on a body of water punctuated by various ships. Lane was known as an early proponent of Luminism, an artistic style that focused on precise depiction of light and atmospheric effects, such as the dramatic sunlight seen through the clouds and on the water’s surface here.
