Antique Niagara Falls Painting

Stunning, rare, Chinese Export original oil painting on board. Adorned with Chinese dragons and the like. Age appropriate wear. One of a kind. All original including the hooks at to...

Elegant oil on canvas original painting that is signed by the artist, L. Rosan, at bottom right. Both the frame and the painting are in exceptional condition. Now, more than ever, h...

Exceptional, original large scale David Kessler (1950-) watercolor painting. It is signed by the artist at bottom right. It comes from a collection from Aetna Insurance Companies in ...

Exceptional, original large scale David Kessler (1950-) watercolor painting. It is signed by the artist at bottom right. It comes from a collection from Aetna Insurance Companies in ...

A stunning turn of the century two piece Chinese cabinet featuring a top and bottom. The carvings are throughout and richly detailed. There are...

Stunning original oil on canvas abstract with multitudes of blue waves by the artist Arlene Carr. Signed at bottom. Frame appears to be new.

Description: Antique print titled 'The Horse shoe fall. Niagara - with the tower'. Steel engraving of the Horseshoe falls or Canadian falls. Artists and Engravers: Engraved by R. Brandard after W.H. Bartlett. Published for the Proprietors by Geo. Virtue. Horseshoe Falls, also known as Canadian Falls, is the largest of the three waterfalls that collectively form Niagara Falls on the Niagara River along the Canada–United States border. Approximately 90% of the Niagara River, after diversions for hydropower generation, flows over Horseshoe Falls. The remaining 10% flows over American Falls and Bridal Veil Falls...

Antique print titled 'The Rapids above the Falls of Niagara'. Steel engraving of the Niagara Falls by R. Brandard after W. H. Bartlett. Originates from 'American Scenery: Or, Land, L...

19th century Irish Marine Botany Specimens made for Thomas Barnett of the Niagara Falls Museum. Seaweed samples were collected off the West Coast of Ireland in 1871 by Mrs. Maria J.W. Kirkwood and presented to Thomas Barnett Esquire, proprietor of the Niagara Falls Museum. These come as two separately framed pieces with hand embroidered lettering surrounded by seaweed and a poem written by Victoria Hall. Free shipping within the United States and Canada. The Niagara Falls Museum was a museum most notable for being the oldest Canadian museum (1827), as well as for having housed the mummy of Ramesses I for 140 years before its return to Egypt in 2003. It was founded by Thomas Barnett of Birmingham, England and underwent a few vocational changes in its history. More on Thomas Barnett and the Niagara Falls Museum. Thomas Barnett was born on December the 4th, 1799 near Birmingham, England. He moved to Canada in the early 1820s and opened the Niagara Falls Museum in 1827 at the base of the Canadian Horseshoe Falls. Barnett had a passion for collecting oddities. He retrofitted a former brewery house to exhibit his private collection. Although Barnett was aware of the collection patterns of his North American contemporaries, his own approach bore an uncanny similarity to the British tradition, such as the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, the first traditional museum in Britain. The Niagara Falls Museum had humble beginnings. In 1827, the first museum contained Thomas Barnett's own cabinet of taxidermic curiosities. Although the details were not documented, the collection was likely composed of a number of mounted animals of local origin, combined with a smattering of Native American artifacts. Barnett's collection however rapidly grew. Prior to 1844, an account of the museum's contents stated that there were over 5000 items, including bipeds, quadrupeds, birds, fish, insects, reptiles, shells, minerals, and Native American curiosities. Through the first fifty years of its existence, the Niagara Falls Museum continued to acquire similar artifacts through the diligent efforts of the Barnett family and their associates. In 1854, Sydney Barnett (son of Thomas Barnett) made the first of his three trips to Egypt (two by himself and one with Dr. J. Douglas of Montreal) and purchased four mummies as well as a host of other Egyptian antiquities. In 1857, mastodon remains were discovered in St. Thomas, Ontario and later placed in the museum. In 1859 an inventory of the museum's contents included, in addition to the previously mentioned artifacts, an egg collection...

Antique print titled 'Der Wasserfall des Niagara'. Original antique print of the Niagara Falls. With German title. Source unknown, to be determined. Published circa 1820.

Charming antique sailors or honeymoon valentine with an unusual horse shoe form ambitiously decorated with exotic seashells around a convex glass lens decorated on the inside with sh...

This exquisite antique French miniature painting captures the allure and elegance of a beautiful woman adorned with exquisite jewelry. Signed...