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Date

July 1830

Artist

David Roberts (1796-1864)

Collection

Guy Peppiatt Fine Art

Description

Watercolour over pencil heightened with bodycolour on buff paper. Roberts’ only sketching tour to Germany was in the summer of 1830 when he journeyed down the Rhine although he did pass through the country on his way to and from Venice in 1851. He went up the Rhine as far as Heidelberg which he particularly enjoyed. While he was in Cologne he heard news of the Three Days’ Revolution in Paris so hastened home instead of on to Strasbourg as he had intended (see Katharine Sim, David Roberts R.A., 1984, p.50). Watercolours of the Tomb of the Three Kings in Cologne Cathedral are in the Harris Museum, Preston and the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester.

The construction of Cologne Cathedral started in 1248 and was halted in 1473, leaving it unfinished. Work restarted in 1842 and was completed, to the original plan, in 1880.

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image © Guy Peppiatt Fine Art

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Cologne Cathedral, Cologne, Germany

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