View of the Town of Gloucester, Mass. (1835–36): Art, History and Details

View of the Town of Gloucester, Mass. (1835–36) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Fitz Henry Lane (American, 1804–1865).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the 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.

Object facts

• Title: View of the Town of Gloucester, Mass.
• Date: 1835–36
• Creator attribution: Fitz Henry Lane (American, 1804–1865)
• Culture: America
• Type: Print
• Technique: lithograph
• Dimensions: Sheet: 47.8 x 62.2 cm (18 13/16 x 24 1/2 in.)
• Collection: PR - Lithograph
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 2019.165

A detail from the museum

Fitz Henry Lane made this print while working at the shop of the Boston lithographer Pendleton, who issued it by subscription to the public.

Collection credit

Gift of Stephen Dull

Further reading listed by the museum

• Holdsworth, Sam, ed. Fitz Henry Lane Online: Historical Archive, Catalogue Raisonné, Educational Resource. Online. Gloucester, MA: Cape Ann Museum, 2019

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.