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 of rocky shoreline on right with variously shaded green trees above yellow and brown foreshore. Small, distant Northwest Coast style canoe near centre. Purple and light red mountains in distance on left. Patchy blue sky above and water below. Image mounted on a light green backing card.