(MASSACHUSETTS) Fitz Henry Lane lithographer; after A Conant

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Sale 2708 - Lot 131

Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800

(MASSACHUSETTS.) Fitz Henry Lane, lithographer; after A Conant. View of Newburyport (from Salisbury). Hand-colored lithograph, 18½ x 28 inches; minimal wear, faint mat toning. Boston: A. Conant, circa 1845

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A wide view of the bustling whaling and mercantile port of Newburyport in its prime. Some of the most intriguing details are a short stretch of working Salisbury riverfront in the foreground. "Of the nineteenth-century American artists now generally regarded as of first rank, only Fitz Hugh Lane produced a substantial body of lithographic city views"--Reps, Views and Viewmakers of Urban America, #1557 and page 189.

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