This painting may not be of Gothenburg. However, it apparently depicts somewhere in Scandinavia, and the port could probably be identified. It was sold as "Circle of Peter Monamy", but bears many of the hallmarks of a painting by Isaac Sailmaker. Now it appears that Sailmaker's name is attached not only to an engraving of Piper's Palace in Stockholm, but also of a view of Gothenburg. The 1705 date is on both prints "after Sailmaker", although on originals of these engravings it is 1702. See original, dated 1702, and the identical issue dated 1705, below. What exactly is going on, is the question that leaps to mind. Gothenburg
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Gothenburg: print dated 1702: from Suecia Antiqua et Hodierna
Gothenburg: print dated 1705, and inscribed as below
  For drawing my attention to the above reproduction, and for supplying a great deal of additional information, I am much obliged to Kevin Crawford: see his website here.
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