Curator: Oh, there's something beautifully spectral about this landscape drawing. It’s an anonymous work from the British School, part of the Tate collection. The support measures about 137 by 207 mm. Editor: It's so delicate, almost disappearing into the paper. It looks like a half-remembered dream of a hillside town. Curator: The town, barely hinted at, sits perched atop a hill, maybe a stand-in for some idealized past or a future yet to be written. The almost faded lines convey a sense of fleeting time. Editor: Perhaps it's a palimpsest of collective memory, those archetypal hilltop settlements always reminding us of safety and dominion. It could equally be a sketch of things lost, or yet to come. Curator: Precisely! And that's its power, I think. It holds so much, while showing so little. Editor: Yes, a quiet meditation on what we see and what we think we remember.