2-798-729 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Bayen Thurm, Cologne, 1845. Boats on the River Rhine at Cologne in Germany, with the Bayenturm in the background. '...the picturesque river scenery of the suburbs, and its industrial population; for they attend to matters of more import than dancing and beer-drinking at the guinguettes. In the distance is seen a steamer, strangely jostling with the Roman Colonia [the tower dates from 1220], and the times when Cologne was called "the Rome of the North"'. From "Illustrated London News", 1845, Vol VII.