Patrick Procktor RA
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1976
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Etching and aquatint
Signed and numbered from the edition of 75 impressions
22.3 x 14.9 cm (inches: 8¾ x 5¾.)
Sidey 57
Plate 1 from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. This publication of Coleridge's poem has twelve aquatints by Procktor. They were inspired by Gustave Doré's illustrations to The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Doré Gallery, and Hamilton Adams Co, London 1876), but also include two earlier designs drawn on Procktor's boat journey to South Africa in 1974, and two portrait studies of Coleridge (frontispiece) and Charles Newington (endpiece). A copy of this series is in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
'The Portrait of Coleridge, etched as it is from light to dark, starting with the top of his nose, upside down in the nitric acid, seems like his endorsement of our project as a benevolent presence: he simply came' (Patrick Procktor as quoted in publicity sheet issued by Rampant Lions Press).
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