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The small square image depicts a scene from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem “Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” after the Mariner has killed the albatross and the crew is initially angry at him for his actions. The mariner is the centre figure in three-quarter profile facing right. He is a young man kneeling on the deck of the ship; the dead albatross lies across the front of the mariner with its head against his chest. Its wings are slightly open, spreading across the lower right corner of the image. The mariner’s head is tilted back as one man holds his head and two others hold back his arms. He wears a white shirt. His quiver of arrows is connected to a leather strap slung on his left shoulder and hanging down to his right side. At his right side, the quiver is tilted over, and the arrows are spilling out onto the ground. One arrow is snapped in two. To the right, one of the crew, with long hair and a beard, kneels over the Mariner holding a knife to his throat. Behind the mariner, a second man in a hat holds the mariner’s head. A third crew member, clean shaven with long hair and a distressed look on his face, holds the mariner’s right arm and wrist, pressing his face into the cloth of the mariner’s shirt. He appears to be younger than the other two crew members. At his feet on the deck is a necklace or rosary of beads. In the upper left corner, two men struggle on the ground. One is face down on the deck with a pained expression on his face. His head and right shoulder are visible. Only the face and hair of the second man are visible but the angry expression on his face and positioning suggest that he is holding the other man on the ground beneath him. Just to the right of these men, a barrel lies on it side by their heads.

The small square image depicts a scene from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem “Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” after the Mariner has killed the albatross and the crew is initially angry at him for his actions. The mariner is the centre figure in three-quarter profile facing right. He is a young man kneeling on the deck of the ship; the dead albatross lies across the front of the mariner with its head against his chest.