Floor fresco of a dog and an overturned vessel. Alexandria, 2nd century BCE.
Dress ca. 1828
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art
“I wish you joy”
Jane Austen, from a letter to her brother Frank (26 July 1809)

Evening dress, 1860′s
From the Musée de la Mode, Albi

Kenneth Steven, “June”
[text ID: JUNE / Barefoot the stairs, sigh your hand gently / down the smooth wood of the banister, / and stand at ten in the morning listening / to the blue song of the house. / All the doors are open and light / moves between rooms like a half-asleep child; / there is no hurry, time passes so slow / you can hear it breathe in the curtains.]

Dvořák’s autograph of Jirka’s aria in Act One Já ubohej ovcácek from the opera Čert a Káča (The Devil and Kate), Op. 112; dated June 26, 1899.
‘A frosty start to our farming day’








