The painting shows a sandy, sparsely-vegetated shoreline on a calm body of water. A white lighthouse tower stands on a breakwater in the background, as do the houses and trees of a small settlement. The sky, which occupied just over half of the painting, appears to be mostly cloudy, with patches of blue.
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William Arthur Johnson (Canadian, 1816-1880), Showing mouth of #GrandRiver, 1869, #watercolor.
Courtesy Baldwin Collection of Canadiana, #Totonto Public Library, digitalarchive.tpl.ca
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