A broad, stone-edged sill forms a low waterfall, over which the water falls in fine threads blurred by a long exposure, and above it lies a mirror-still pond, perfectly reflecting the leaning branches of young birches and alders. On the left bank sits a small group of men in hats, watching — most likely workers or overseers, resting from the stone-laying work underway at the time. In the distance, beyond the trees, the outline of a familiar brick building can be seen, with a tall chimney and a pointed gable — the same one already glimpsed by the "Riviera" café (exhibits No. 67–69).
The photograph's own caption reads: "20. Landwarów, budowa kaskady w parku 'Szwajcaria'. Fot. przed 1900, Biblioteka Narodowa w Warszawie, Zbiór Rękopisów, Z. Potocka, Teki rodzinne. Tyszkiewiczowie, Potoccy, Lubomirscy, Zamoyscy, Warszawa 1973" — meaning that, alongside the Mediterranean-themed "Riviera," the estate's park also had an entirely different, Alpine-themed zone, named "Switzerland": an imitation of a rocky, cascading mountain landscape, a fashionable feature of parks of the era. This photograph, taken before 1900 (so earlier than the "Riviera" postcards, exhibits No. 64–65), captures the very construction process — people laying the stones, rather than the finished scene guests would later pose in.
The animation here is the most restrained in the whole exhibition: the reflections of the trees on the pond's surface stir almost imperceptibly, while the water keeps quietly spilling over the stone sill — as though what was captured was not a festive moment, but an ordinary working afternoon at the estate.