About this motif
Around 1700 Cologne was a free imperial city with dozens of churches, monasteries and convents – not for nothing was it called "holy Cologne". The city stretched in a semicircle along the left bank of the Rhine, enclosed by a mighty wall.
The etching "Cologne around 1700" shows the city in the style of old copperplate views: a dense sea of towers and roofs, the Rhine with ships in front and the inscription "Rhenus Fluvius". A decorative landscape format (about 7 x 16 cm), black and white or hand-coloured, framed on request.
