Rhizome / 0 Comments 460px-Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner-Albatross-Dore August 28, 2011 Engraving by Gustave Doré for an 1876 edition of the Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Coleridge. Labeled “The Albatross,” it depicts 17 sailors on the deck of a wooden ship facing an albatross. Icicles hang from the rigging.