Joseph Noel Paton, R.S.A. (Dunfermline, Fife 1821-1901 Edinburgh)

Joseph Noel Paton, R.S.A. (Dunfermline, Fife 1821-1901 Edinburgh)
Nineteen illustrations for Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: 'It is an Ancient Mariner'; 'The wedding guest sat on a stone'; 'The Bride hath paced into the hall'; 'At length did cross an albatross'; 'A good south wind sprung up behind'; 'For all averred, I had killed the bird'; 'Ah! Well a-day! what evil looks'; 'I bit my arm, I sucked the blood'; 'The souls did from their bodies fly'; 'The self same moment i could pray'; 'Oh Sleep! It is a gentle thing'; 'The spirit who bideth by himself'; 'The other have a softer voice';' The seraph-band, each waved his hand'; 'Dear Lord! It hath a fiendish look'; 'Upon the whirl, where sank the ship'; 'Oh shrieve me, shrieve me, holy man!'; 'But in the garden bower, the bride'; and 'To walk together to the kirk'
all variously inscribed and dated
pencil on paper, unframed
18 ¼ x 22 in. (46.3 x 55.8 cm.); and similar
(25)Sold together with six further unpublished first designs for the same poem by the same hand.