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Guisachan, B.C. October 1891 (Lord Aberdeen’s Farm)

Watercolour of a one-storey white house with a red roof and a smaller house to the left with hills and trees in the background.

Credit: Library and Archives Canada/Lady Pentland collection/C-004544

 

 

Lady Aberdeen’s painting, looking towards Guisachan House and the third McDougall House (to the right).  The construction of Guisachan House, built from a plan approved by the Aberdeens, was overseen by Coutts. The new farmhouse was a ‘Colonial Bungalow’ design.

Ishbel Aberdeen’s watercolour on paper, 14 x 34.2 cm, from Carolyn MacHardy’s paper ‘Kodaking and Being Kodaked’: The Guisachan Album of Ishbel, Lady Aberdeen.