View in Victoria Harbour

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 Indian villages, but the prevalence of Indian canoes and British Columbia's forests, attest to her early interest in these themes, which she developed fully in her later work.

Canadian art; late 19th century watercolours.

Small, rectangular shaped, watercolour study with sloping shore on right and two rows of blue and grey distant mountains on left; blue and yellow sky above with four flying birds; grey-blue water below. Shore is brown at water's edge, then yellow with brown and green; mottled green trees above. Image mounted on a light brown backing card. Written in pencil on the back is ‘View in Victoria Harbour’.