About this motif
On the towpath along the Rhine, horses used to pull barges upstream. This laborious towing only ended with the arrival of steamships.
Peters' narrow etching "Düsseldorf around 1840" shows a sailing ship being towed by horses along the bank, with the city skyline behind. Image about 7 x 16 cm on a 20 x 25 cm sheet, black and white or hand-coloured, framed on request.
