[COLOGNE and KOBLENZ.]
Three hotel advertising cards with lithographic city views.
[Cologne and Koblenz, c. 1870.]
Three lithographic cards (75 x 134 mm; 80 x 141 mm; 93 x 135 mm), of which two with gilt borders, one with lithographic text to verso; sometime mounted in an album with wax to verso.
An attractive group of advertising cards for three Rhine-front hotels in Cologne and Koblenz, each with a lithographic view of the river and city.
In Cologne we find Charles Dietzmann’s imaginatively named Grand Hôtel Royal and Johann Baptist Harperath’s Hôtel de Cologne (‘opposite the landing and departing place of the Steamboats’), both showing views of a bustling riverfront with the city in the background, one showing the Cathedral still under construction. Their counterpart in Koblenz, the Grand Hôtel de Belle Vue, was evidently expecting international visitors, with a notice commending the hotel printed in French, German, and English on the verso; only the French text designates the proprietor as ‘M. Hoche, natif français’.
