About this motif
In the middle of the Thirty Years' War, Cologne, as a heavily fortified city, was spared conquest and destruction. Its semicircular layout on the Rhine was well known from old views.
Peters' large etching "Cologne around 1635" shows the city in a bird's-eye view across the Rhine: church towers, the ring of walls and ships on the river, with trees and figures on the bank in the foreground. Image about 12 x 16 cm, a decorative print, black and white or hand-coloured, framed on request.
