The iconic bronze Dancing Faun — replica standing on its pedestal in the impluvium of the most opulent house in all of Pompeii — presides over a sun-drenched courtyard in this evocative 1923 photograph, while the unmistakable silhouette of Vesuvius rises in smoke above the roofless peristyle beyond. Mailed from Rome on April 9, 1923, addressed to John at 679 Lake Drive Road S.E. in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the writer — likely a traveler named with an initial "L" — enthuses: "Visited this wonderful place yesterday — will try to get all — How you would have enjoyed it all — don't say anything to later on — don't say much — we are so hard put… Julia" — a tantalizing fragment of a Grand Tour conversation across the Atlantic. Publisher Carlo Cotini of Naples, No. 84264.