About this motif
When the Alster froze in harsh winters, it became the city's largest expanse of ice. Skaters, walkers and traders then thronged the lake – a scene that still occasionally repeats itself today.
Peters' etching "Hamburg around 1850" shows the frozen Alster with many people on the ice, with houses, church towers and smoking chimneys behind. Image about 8 x 11 cm, black and white or hand-coloured, framed on request.
