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Painting shows a lake view with the Harbor buildings in the background.
Toronto Harbour from the East
Painting shows a lake view with the Harbor buildings in the background.

Toronto Harbour from the East

Date1950?
Names
FormatPicture
Notes

Hornyansky describes the plate as made in 1950 or 1951 with nine tone bitings. Impressions of the aquatint were issued as Christmas cards by the Toronto Harbour Commissioners, 1951. 
Inscribed in pencil, lower left: "Toronto Harbour from the East"
lower right: "Hornyansky"

Hornyansky describes the plate as made in 1950 or 1951 with nine tone bitings 

Process: one-plate simultaneous colour printing 
Mordant: Nitric Acid
First stage of plate work: line etching on asphalt ground 
Second stage of plate work: resin dust aquatint. 

Number of tone bitings for print: 9 tones.
Copperplate, chrome faced fpr colour conservation (oxcide free).
(correspondence of 4 and 13 March 1961 in Accession File). 

Impressions of the aquatint were issued as Christmas cards by the Toronto Harbour Commissioners, 1951. SCPEE 1952, no. 58 
GeographyCity, town, townshipToronto
GeographyNeighbourhoodHarbour
GeographyProvince stateOntario
GeographyCountryCanada
Medium
Dimensions116 x 152; sheet 212 x 244 mm
Language
CollectionBaldwin Collection of Canadiana
Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)
Object Number961-3-17-CabIV-Hornyansky