Title
Vue du Marche aux Poissons, dans le quartier vieux de Cologne, et de lEglise St Pierre, dans leloignement. Dediee a Son Excellence, Monsieur le Comte de Sacken, grand Chambellan et Ministre dEtat & de guerre de S. Maj le Roi de Prusse, Chevalier des orders de laigle noir, de St Andre et dAlexandre Newsky, Seigneur de Dondangen & Starost de Pilten. : XIX. / Desine et grave a Berlin par J. Rosenberg En 1785.
Creator
Rosenberg, Johann Georg, 1739-1808, artist, printmaker.
Publication details
[Berlin] : par ses tres humbles Serviteurs Jean Morino & Compagnie Marchands d Estampes., [1785]
Physical details
1 print : etching with gouache ; sheet 52 x 73.7 cm.
Description
View of the Fischmarkt in the Kollnischen or Old Colln district of Berlin with Petrikirche or St Peter's Church in the distance; figures, market stalls and barrels of fish in the foreground.
Place
Berlin (Germany)
Additional information
Part of a series of twenty views of Berlin. This view is a duplicate added after the complete series of 20 views within the volume, which are coloured with watercolour. The duplicates are hand-coloured in gouache. It is bound with a foreword in letterpress in French and German, listing and describing each view. Bound within a volume which contains 50 views including 10 views of Potsdam by Andreas Ludwig Kruger after Johann Friedrich Meyer, published by Jean Morino. Also within this volume is a title sheet depicting a landscape and monument in gouache which reads 'Collection des Vues principals de Berlin et de Potsdam apartenante a Le Majeste George III. Roi de la Grande Bretagne, de France et dIrelane etc: etc: et presentee par ses tres humbles, tres respectueux et tres soumis serviteurs Jean Morino & Compagnie. Berlin. 1789'. This sheet suggests that the volume was compiled for King George III by Morino.
Other persons
Morino, Johan, active 1786-1793, publisher.
Shelfmark
Maps 4.TAB.56.