Rime sparse posters & prints

Fol. 52r from 'Canzoniere e Trionfi' by Petrarch, c.1470 Italian School

Almo Sol, quella fronde ch'io sol amo Italian School

Fol. 1v, 'Per fare una leggiadra sua vendetta' Italian School

Fol. 17v, 'Orso e non furo mai fiumi ne stagni' Italian School

After the Shipwreck - Design for an Illustration of Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Gustave Doré

The Mariner, surrounded by the dead sailors, suffers anguish of spirit Gustave Dore

The 'Night-mare Life-in-Death' plays dice with Death for the souls of the crew Gustave Dore

The albatross is shot by the Mariner Gustave Dore

Ship in Antartica Gustave Dore

The sailors curse the Mariner, forced to wear the dead albatross around his neck Gustave Dore

The mariner sees the band of angelic spirits Gustave Dore

The Mariner regrets his shooting of the Albatross Gustave Dore

Title page from 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by S.T. Coleridge, published by Harper & Brothers, New York, 1876 Gustave Dore

The Mariner gazes on the ocean and laments his survival while all his fellow sailors have died Gustave Dore

The Mariner up the mast during a storm Gustave Dore

The Ancient Mariner with the Wedding Guest Gustave Dore

The first vision of his native country by the Mariner, freed from his trance and woken from sleep Gustave Dore

The rain begins to fall Gustave Dore

The marooned ship in a moonlit sea Gustave Dore

The Wedding Guest being detained by the Ancient Mariner Gustave Dore

The albatross being fed by the sailors on the the ship marooned in the frozen seas of Antartica Gustave Dore

The Mariner aloft in the poop of the ship Gustave Dore

The Mariner has been condemned to travel unceasingly from country to country Gustave Dore

The Mariner, having finished his story, turns to leave, while his listener, the wedding guest gazes on him in wonderment... Gustave Dore

The sailors see in the distance a ghostly ship Gustave Dore

The mariner, as his ship is sinking, sees the boat with the Hermit and Pilot Gustave Dore

The Mariner gazes on the serpents in the ocean Gustave Dore

The Mariner begs the Hermit to give him absolution from his sin Gustave Dore

Death-fires dancing around the becalmed ship Gustave Dore

Crowd of onlookers and spectators at the wedding Gustave Dore

The ship sinks but the Mariner is rescued by the Pilot and Hermit Gustave Dore

The Mariner, condemned to travel unceasingly from country to country, is also condemned to relate his story to people he... Gustave Dore

The Wedding Guest being prevented by the Ancient Mariner from attending the wedding Gustave Dore

The ship continues to sail miraculously, moved by a troupe of angelic spirits Gustave Dore

The dead sailors rise up and start to work the ropes of the ship so that it begins to move Gustave Dore

Interior with Mother and Child Edmund Charles Tarbell