Mount Arrowsmith from Comox, B.C.

Painting

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The Union Club of British Columbia

Mount Arrowsmith from Comox, B.C., n.d. Watercolor on paper by unidentified artist (signed KLJ)

Mount Arrowsmith from Comox, B.C., n.d. Watercolor on paper by unidentified artist (signed KLJ)

Name/Title

Mount Arrowsmith from Comox, B.C.

Entry/Object ID

2017.02.10

Description

Painting This landscape view depicts Mount Arrowsmith in the distance, the highest mountain east of Port Alberni on Vancouver Island, from Comox, B.C. The painting shows a tranquil blue-purple vista across waters southward down the Island.

Artwork Details

Medium

Watercolour on paper

Subject Place

Region

Pacific Northwest

Continent

North America

Context

Mount Arrowsmith is the highest mountain on southern Vancouver Island and is the most prominent visual focal point for the south central portion of the island. The mountain is named kał-ka-č’ałḥ (Kulth-ka-choolth) meaning Jagged Points Facing Upward in the Hupacasath and Coast Salish First Nations language. Mount Arrowsmith was also named for John Arrowsmith and his uncle, Aaaron. The Arrowsmith family was a English cartographic dynasty which operated from the late-18th eighteenth century to the mid-19th century.

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Unidentified

Role

Painter

Date made

n.d.

Time Period

20th Century

Notes

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY Further research is needed.

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Type

Inscription, Signature

Location

Below watercolour on card mount

Transcription

Left in pen: MT. ARROWSMITH - FROM COMOX. B.C. Right corner: KLJ

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Support

Height

16.5 cm

Width

21.6 cm

Acquisition

Notes

Detail unknown

Relationships

Related Entries

Notes

See 2001.02.02 "Sketch to illustrate Report of a Canoe Expedition along the East Coast of Vancouver Island". This is a hand-coloured engraving by John Arrowsmith published for "The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society" by John Murray, Albermarle Street, London in 1855 after a sketch done by James Douglas (Governor of the Crown colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia, later Sir James Douglas) in 1854.