Painterly open atlas with a brass compass, wooden spoon and shell on warm cream.

Original artwork, not a still

William Hazlitt

In travelling we visit names as well as places.

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

Hazlitt notes that a trip takes us to names as well as locations. A place arrives loaded with everything we've read and imagined about it. Seeing it means meeting the reputation along with the streets and squares themselves.

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