J. M. W. Turner, Tell’s Chapel, Lake Lucerne, 1841.
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Far from the treacherous peaks and ravines of Switzerland, Alpine cottages arose, unexpectedly, amid the hillocks and modest streams of 19th-century England. Seán Williams recovers the peculiar fad for “Little Switzerlands”, where the Romantic sublime meets countryside kitsch.
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Tell’s Chapel, Lake Lucerne
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