Castine, Maine
Fitz Henry Lane
(American, 1804–1865)
1856
Medium/TechniqueOil on canvas
Dimensions53.66 x 85.09 cm (21 1/8 x 33 1/2 in.)
Credit LineBequest of Maxim Karolik
Accession number64.437
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This type of panorama is related to the lithographs of city views that Lane made beginning in the mid-1830s. Castine is at the northern end of Penobscot Bay; Lane's scene looks south, taken from a vantage point above the town. The foreground is populated with figures at work and at leisure, the buildings in the middle ground are a precise record of the town, and the distant harbor, hills, and sky foreshadow Lane's mature, atmospheric compositions.
InscriptionsLower right: F H Lane./1856ProvenanceThe artist; probably Jonathan Lane, father of the artist, Gloucester, Mass.; Mrs. Leary Swan, West Roxbury, Mass., by 1938; Maxim Karolik, Newport, R.I.; to MFA, 1964, bequest of Maxim Karolik.
