View in Victoria Harbour
About this object
History of use
Based on stylistic characteristics, Doris Shadbolt (1975) attributes these watercolours to about 1895. The scenes are mainly from the Victoria area, and the Fraser Valley. They predate Emily Carr's trips to coastal indigenous villages, but the prevalence of canoes and forests attest to her early interest in these themes, which she developed fully in her later paintings.
Cultural context
Canadian art; late 19th century watercolours.
Physical description
Small, rectangular shaped, watercolour study with white house on point of land at bottom right. Foreshore is purple with yellow and green bushes and trees to right of house. Various shades of light blue water across bottom and around point to centre. In background on left is a treed slope with vaguely outlined houses with purple and blue mountains behind. Image mounted on a light green backing card.
Categories
Materials
Date Made
C. 1895
Date Acquired
12 Apr 1983
How Acquired
Donated
Credit Line
Measurements
Overall: 11.4 cm x 17.6 cm
Object Number
Cf36