Salem Harbor
Fitz Henry Lane
(American, 1804–1865)
1853
Medium/TechniqueOil on canvas
Dimensions66.36 x 106.68 cm (26 1/8 x 42 in.)
Credit LineBequest of Maxim Karolik
Accession number64.465
ClassificationsPaintings
InscriptionsLower left center, on sail: FHL/1853Provenance1853, the artist; Nathaniel Silsbee, Jr. (1804-1881), Salem, Mass.; 1881, by inheritance to his wife, Marianne C. D. Silsbee (1812-1889); descended in the Silsbee family to her great-granddaughter, Marianne M. Beach, Salem, Mass. Maxim Karolik, Newport, R.I.; to MFA, 1964, bequest of Maxim Karolik.
