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Editor: Here we have an untitled sketch by John Flaxman, held in the Tate Collections. It’s rather faint, isn’t it? Almost ghostly. What do you make of these altar-like structures, and those helmeted figures looming above? Curator: Ah, Flaxman! He saw the world through classical lenses, didn't he? These sketches feel like whispers from antiquity, imagined monuments perhaps? What stories do you think they might tell? Editor: Maybe tales of forgotten heroes? Or designs for memorials that never were? It's fascinating to see the genesis of an idea, so raw and unformed. Curator: Precisely! It’s like glimpsing the artist's thought process. The sketch's simplicity invites us to fill in the blanks, to conjure our own narratives. It’s a dance between artist and observer, don’t you think?