The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Gustave Doré life cycles she whispered

she whispered

Spring to Winter

This gorgeous and informative book is soon to be a bible for every painter

" -- Richard Schwartz

both young and young at heart

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Gustave Doré life cycles she whisperedGustave Dore's magnificent engravings for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner are among the later works of the great French illustrator. The intensely evocative poem provided Dor with the long awaited opportunity to convey limitless space on a gigantic scale, and he exploited the poem's fantastic range of atmosphere to the limits of its possibilities. The terrifying space of the open sea, the storms and whirlpools of an unknown ocean, the vast icy caverns