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“We knew from experience that this fog on the river signalled another change. It was like a curtain, behind which a new world was waiting to be discovered, older and stranger than before.”

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Textile fragment, 1600–1799, Metropolitan Museum of Art: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Edward S. Harkness in memory of her mother, Elizabeth Greenman Stillman, 1931 Size: 36 x 17 in. (91.4 x 43.2 cm) Medium: Linen

Figure, 3rd century B.C.–A.D. 4th century, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas

The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Bequest of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1979 Size: H. 2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm) Medium: Ceramic, pigment