Old Boat House Swan Lake

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.

Canadian art; late 19th century watercolours.

Small, rectangular shaped, watercolour study with small, brown, house-like structure at centre foreground; yellow and brown bushes and trees behind and to left. Foreground is yellow on left, gradually darkening through orange and browns to right. Background on right shows dark blue conifers above brown ground and blue wash sky above. Image mounted on a light brown backing card.