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 two people paddling a Northwest Coast style canoe, on right, in front of a steep bank; dark blue-green trees on top with green and yellow vegetation below. Dark and light blue mountains in the distant background on left; yellow sky. Water across bottom is blue wash, reflection of canoe and shoreline on right. Image mounted on a light brown backing card.