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SOLD – Nicholas HORNYANSKY (1896-1965) ARCA OSA ‘Fort Niagara’, aquatint
Painting, SOLDSOLD Nicholas Hornyansky (Hungarian/Canadian, 1896-1965) ARCA, OSA, CPE, FIAL, ACPS ‘Bridal Veil; Ball’s Falls’ aquatint, framed (image): 4 3/8” high x 5 5/8” wide (impression): 5” high x 6 3/8” wide (frame): 9 3/8” high x 10 ¼” wide Notes: “Historic Old Fort Niagara / An Ancient Gateway to the West / On that corner of the peninsula in New York State, looking north over Lake Ontario, looking west across the mouth of the Niagara River, is this historic fort, first built in 1726 under the direction of Louis Thomas de Joncaire by Gaspard de Lery under a French appropriation of approximately six million dollars. It was called a chateau so as not to arouse the suspicion and hostility of the Indians, but it had walls four feet thick, huge interior stone arches to take up the repercussions of cannon fire, and inside was a well as a precaution against siege. Cut stone for window and door casements was shipped from Frontenac (Kingston) but the timber came from the woods nearby. Between 1750 and 1759 the fort was converted into an elaborate stronghold with its system of earthworks, moats and powder magazine. Sir William Pitt had said in parliament that, next to the citadel at Quebec, Fort Niagara was the most important post in America and must be taken at all costs. The English assault came in July ’59. The battle took place south of the Fort and is known in history as La Belle Famile. Over six hundred soldiers, eleven officers and their wives marched out of Fort Niagara as prisoners of war. The French had lost the key to the west and a new era had begun with Sir William Johnson as commander at the Fort. The English held Fort Niagara after the Treaty of Paris, until 1796, when the United States took possession. So, as the engraving shows, Fort Niagara has been under three flags. The task of rehabilitating the Fort was completed in 1934 and is one of the finest works of restoration in America.” ~ Louis Blake Duff Scroll Down for more Info -
Nicholas HORNYANSKY (1896-1965) ARCA OSA ‘Home of the Colonial Advocate’, aquatint
PaintingNicholas Hornyansky (Hungarian/Canadian, 1896-1965) ARCA, OSA, CPE, FIAL, ACPS ‘Home of the Colonial Advocate’ [MacKenzie King House, Niagara-on-the-Lake] With a view of Queenston Heights in the background. aquatint (image): 4 ¼” high x 5 3/8” wide (frame): 8” high x 9 ¼” wide Notes: “The Home of the Colonial Advocate. // THIS THE HOME of the Colonial Advocate, a quite insignificant newspaper and yet it shook the country. Sometimes there is dynamite in newspapers. The gingery, wiry, peppery little Scot, William Lyon MacKenzie, had come from Dundas where he had some connection with the grocery trade, to found a newspaper on the frontier at Queenstown. On May 20, 1824, the first issue came out. That day saw something more than the launching of a newspaper. It was really the launching of a man on a career that was to carry him through storm and battle, insurrection and exile, and at last place him under the shadow of the gallows. He was to come home again after the fires had burned low to end his years in tranquility, and to enjoy at least some of the reforms to which his life and fortune had been devoted. // This building was MacKenzie’s home at Queenston, and, as has been said, the home of the Colonial Advocate, but the paper was printed there for only a few issues. An early Advocate remarked that a contract has been issued to have the first twelve issues printed in another shop for MacKenzie had no printing equipment as yet. The editor assured his readers in the issue of October 7 that it had been half printed at home and half printed in the American Republick, but did not say where. The Advocate of October 14 was the first completely home product. // In the American Republick, but where? Across the river was the Lewiston Sentinel, founded in 1828 by James O. Daley. Of the sentinel and the first fifteen issues of the Advocate one can say they were alike in this: same size page, same five columns to the page; same 48-point caps in the heading; same 24-point old English in the sub-head; same 8-point body type. There seems no reason to doubt that the first fifteen issues came from the presses of the Sentinel. For a month the Advocate was at home, in the building shown in the picture – then came York.” ~ Courtesy, Louis Blake Duff Scroll Down for Further Details$300.00 $300.00$300.00 $300.00 -
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SOLD – Nicholas HORNYANSKY (1896-1965) ARCA OSA ‘Katwijk Church, Holland’, aquatint
Painting, SOLDSOLD Nicholas Hornyansky (Hungarian/Canadian, 1896-1965) ARCA, OSA, CPE, FIAL, ACPS ‘Katwijk Church, Holland’ aquatint, framed (image): 4 3/8” high x 5 5/8” wide (impression): 5” high x 6 3/8” wide (frame): 9 3/8” high x 10 ¼” wide -
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SOLD – Nicholas HORNYANSKY (1896-1965) ARCA OSA ‘Amsterdam,’ aquatint
Painting, SOLDNicholas Hornyansky (Hungarian/Canadian, 1896-1965) ARCA, OSA, CPE, FIAL, ACPS ‘The Hour of Midnight Service’ aquatint (sight) 6 ¾” high x 9” wide (impression) 6 3/8” high x 8 5/8” wide (frame) 13” high x 16” wide [sf_modal header="" link_type="button" link_text="ENQUIRE / REQUEST INVOICE" btn_colour="accent" btn_type="standard" btn_size="standard" btn_icon="" btn_text="ENQUIRE /REQUEST INVOICE"] [contact-form-7 id="13131" title="Contact Form"] [/sf_modal] Scroll Down for more Info -
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SOLD – Nicholas HORNYANSKY (1896-1965) ARCA OSA ‘Bridal Veil; Ball’s Falls’, aquatint
Painting, SOLDSOLD Nicholas Hornyansky (Hungarian/Canadian, 1896-1965) ARCA, OSA, CPE, FIAL, ACPS ‘Bridal Veil; Ball’s Falls’ aquatint, framed (image): 4 3/8” high x 5 5/8” wide (impression): 5” high x 6 3/8” wide (frame): 9 3/8” high x 10 ¼” wide -
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SOLD – Nicholas HORNYANSKY (1896-1965) ARCA OSA ‘The Dickson Home, Galt’, aquatint
Painting, SOLDSOLD Nicolas Hornyansky (Hungarian/Canadian, 1896-1965) ARCA, OSA, CPE, FIAL, ACPS ‘The Dickson Home, Galt’ aquatint (image): 4 5/8” high x 5 ¾” wide (impression): 5 3/8” high x 6 3/8” wide (frame): 9 3/8” high x 10 3/8” wide -
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SOLD – Nicholas HORNYANSKY (1896-1965) ARCA OSA ‘Hour of Midnight Service,’ aquatint
Painting, SOLDNicholas Hornyansky (Hungarian/Canadian, 1896-1965) ARCA, OSA, CPE, FIAL, ACPS ‘The Hour of Midnight Service’ aquatint (sight) 6 ¾” high x 9” wide (impression) 6 3/8” high x 8 5/8” wide (frame) 13” high x 16” wide [sf_modal header="" link_type="button" link_text="ENQUIRE / REQUEST INVOICE" btn_colour="accent" btn_type="standard" btn_size="standard" btn_icon="" btn_text="ENQUIRE /REQUEST INVOICE"] [contact-form-7 id="13131" title="Contact Form"] [/sf_modal] Scroll Down for more Info -
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SOLD – Nicholas HORNYANSKY (1896-1965) ARCA OSA ‘Dundurn Castle’, aquatint
Painting, SOLDNicholas Hornyansky (Hungarian/Canadian, 1896-1965) ARCA, OSA, CPE, FIAL, ACPS ‘Dundurn Castle’ aquatint (image) 4 ¼” high x 5 ½” wide (impression) 5” high x 6 3/16” wide (frame) 9 3/8” high x 10 3/8” wide Notes: Dundurn Castle is a historic neoclassical Regency mansion in Hamilton, Ontario, built by Sir Allan Napier MacNab, 1st Baronet and completed in 1835. Camilla, the Queen consort is a descendant of MacNab, the Premier of the united Province of Canada (1854-1856), and the Royal Patron of Dundurn Castle. Designed by Robert Charles Wetherall it is now designated a National Historic Site of Canada. -
Nicholas HORNYANSKY (1896-1965) ARCA OSA ‘Bridal Veil; Ball’s Falls’, aquatint
PaintingNicholas Hornyansky (Hungarian/Canadian, 1896-1965) ARCA, OSA, CPE, FIAL, ACPS ‘Bridal Veil; Ball’s Falls’ aquatint, framed (image): 4 3/8” high x 5 5/8” wide (impression): 5” high x 6 3/8” wide (frame): 9 3/8” high x 10 ¼” wide Scroll Down for more Info$300.00 $300.00$300.00 $300.00 -
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SOLD – Nicholas HORNYANSKY (1896-1965) ARCA OSA ‘Navy Hall, Niagara-on-the-Lake’, aquatint
Painting, SOLDSOLD Nicholas Hornyansky (Hungarian/Canadian, 1896-1965) ARCA, OSA, CPE, FIAL, ACPS ‘Navy Hall, Niagara on the Lake’ aquatint (image): 4 1/8” high x 5 3/8”wide (frame): 7 ¾” high x 9 ¼” wide -
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SOLD – Nicholas HORNYANSKY (1896-1965) ARCA OSA ‘Old Churches of Canada, St Mark, NOTL’, aquatint
Prints, SOLDSOLD Nicolas Hornyansky (Hungarian/Canadian, 1896-1965) ARCA, OSA, CPE, FIAL, ACPS ‘Old Churches of Canada, St Marks, Niagara on the Lake’ aquatint (image): 5 ¼” high x 4” wide (impression): 4 3/8” high x 12 13/16” wide (frame): 10” high x 8” wide -
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SOLD – Nicholas HORNYANSKY (1896-1965) ARCA OSA ‘Fort Mississauga’, aquatint
Painting, SOLDSOLD Nicholas Hornyansky (Hungarian/Canadian, 1896-1965) ARCA, OSA, CPE, FIAL, ACPS ‘Fort Mississauga’ aquatint (image): 4 ¼” high x 5 13/16” wide (frame): 8” high x 9 ¼” wide Label: “Fort Mississauga. / Happy the nation that has no history! Happy the fort that never sent out a shot and never received one! Such is a Fort Mississauga at old Niagara. It looks out to see golf greens spread about it; to the east to see the town on whose edge it has stood for a century and a third; to the north to see the blue waters of Lake Ontario. // The Fort, with five-foot walls, was built following the War of 1812-14, largely from bricks brought from the ruins of the town which had been destroyed in the conflict. This accounts for the large number of broken bricks mortared into the walls. // William Kirby in his Canadian Idylls has thus described the Fort: Its walls thick as a feudal keep with loopholes slashed, Contain the wreck and ruin of the town. // The earthworks at Fort Mississauga are in the shape of a star and are of an earlier date than the Fort itself, having been thrown up probably in the early years of Simcoe’s governorship. // A restoration in relatively recent years put a cottage roof (the first one was flat) on the Fort, and dormer windows, making Mississauga undoubtedly the only fort in the world thus decorated.” ~ Louis Blake Duff -
Nicholas HORNYANSKY (1896-1965) ‘Old Lewiston Bridge’, aquatint
PrintsSummary: Rare coloured Post-Expressionist etching titled ‘Lewiston Bridge’ by respected and listed Canadian artist, Nicholas Hornyansky (1896-1965). Hornyansky is regarded for picturesque and accurate renderings of historical landmarks. Shown is a view of the second Queenston-Lewiston Suspension Bridge (1899-1962), from the American side looking towards the Queenston Monument. In 1899 the Falls View Suspension Bridge was dismantled and moved to this location to replace the first Queenston-Lewiston Bridge that was destroyed by wind in 1854. Coloured in Hornyansky’s trademark use of gradients, in this example from blue, through violet, towards a grey, with the Queenston Heights monument illuminated in yellow. Squaring the image to the monument are the blossoms and swirling eddies executed in the Japanese taste. Scroll Down for further details$345.00 $345.00$345.00 $345.00 -
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SOLD – Nickolas HORNYANSKY (1896-1965) ‘Victoria College, University of Toronto,’, Etching
Prints, SOLDRare etching titled, ‘Victoria College, University of Toronto,’ by respected and listed Canadian artist, Nicholas Hornyansky (1896-1965). Hornyansky is regarded for picturesque and accurate renderings of historical landmarks. -
Nickolas HORNYANSKY – etching – Chateau de Ramezay
PaintingNicholas Hornyansky (1896-1965) ‘Chateau de Ramezay, Montreal’ etching, aquatint (image): 4 ⅛” high x 5 ⅞” wide (frame): 8 9/16” x 6 9/16” Scroll Down for further details$250.00 $250.00$250.00 $250.00 -
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SOLD – Edith Grace COOMBS – watercolour – Daffodils
Painting, SOLDEdith Grace Coombs (Canadian, 1890-1986) OSA, CSGA, FIAL Mrs. James Sharp Lawson ‘Daffodils (1937) oil on masonite signed; signed & inscribed verso (sight) 9 7/8” high x 11 7/8 wide (framed) 17 ½” high x 18 ¾” wide
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