Travel to the Swiss Alps inside the British Museum

There’s a little-noticed exhibition at the British Museum at the moment full of watercolours and drawings of the Swiss Alps.
It’s part of a collection amassed by Robert Wylie Lloyd, a businessman, art collector, entomologist and keen mountaineer, described in his 1958 obituary as ‘a remarkable and picturesque character who belonged essentially to the Victorian age’.
His love of the Swiss Alps saw him foster a collection of over 5,000 Swiss prints and books, considered tod