“Improving” Landscapes: Nice Soap Factories here and there on the Swiss mountains. Given the Victorian enthusiasm for the Alps, partly due to the writings of John Ruskin and partly due to the development of mountain-climbing as a sport, this image would have has a lot of force. Source: Fun 27 (27 March 1878): 130. Click on image to enlarge it. — George P. Landow
Related material
- “Improving” Landscapes (complete page)
- A few nice chimney stacks at our seaside resorts
- Capital centre ornament for a flower-garden
- Drainage-pipes (purely for ornamental purposes) in Windsor and other Forests
[You may use this image without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the Hathi Digital Library Trust and the Princeton University library and (2) link your document to this URL in a web document or cite the Victorian Web in a print one.]
Last modified 10 February 2016