centuriespast:

After the Shipwreck - Design for an illustration of Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Gustave Doré 
French, about 1875 
Watercolor 

I took the oars: the Pilot’s boy, 
Who now doth crazy go, 
Laughed loud and long, and all the while 
His eyes went to and fro 
“Ha! Ha!” quoth he, “full plain I see, 
The Devil knows how to row.” 
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

The J. Paul Getty Museum