View of New Bedford. From the Fort near Fairhaven

by Fitz Henry Lane, after Albert Conant

$3,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A stunning view of the harbor of New Bedford, Massachusetts by Fitz Henry Lane, one of America's most celebrated marine painters. A large, finely coloured harbour view of New Bedford at the height of its whaling prosperity, drawn from Albert Conant's on-the-spot sketch and translated on stone by Fitz Henry Lane. The vantage is the fort at Fairhaven on the east bank of the Acushnet River, looking west across a foreground of fenced pasture and shore activity to the crowded

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