Webb’s ‘incomplete’ view of Cologne to go on display at city's town hall following auction
For 300 years, from the 1520s to the 1820s, the great Gothic cathedral in Cologne remained unfinished – the building overshadowed by a large crane, which for centuries dominated the panorama on the banks of the Rhine.
In the early 19th century, it was decided to complete the building and add the two spires which ar…