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| | FITZ HUGH LANE |
 | | The Butler Institute canvas is a classic result of this overlay of meditation and recollection, in which a known and observed vessel is projected into a ghostly world of suspended luminosity. |
 | | Lane had, in fact, portrayed this vessel once before, in 1854 (Richard York Gallery, New York), and that earlier picture shows a vessel with a quite different, lower, profile of the boW.4 She is also anchored just off a wharf, most likely in Boston Harbor. |
 | | As he worked on the canvas, Lane made a number of critical adjustments, including lowering some of the spars and sails on the mizzen mast, and raising the stern and bowsprit. |
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