Early Romantic tourism
10th January 2012
This is a pocket guide (it’s only 106 × 69 mm) to the ‘Ermitage’ at Arlesheim, the largest English landscape garden in Switzerland, produced in 1788 for visitors who came to wander dreamily around the suitably Romantic setting. Created in 1785 by Balbina von Andlau-von Staal and her cousin, Heinrich von Ligertz, the Ermitage, or ‘Solitude […]
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