Illustrator: Willy Pogány

Watercolor

6 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches; with border: 7 1/2 x 5 1/16 inches

c. 1910

Beyond the shadow of the ship,
     I watched the water-snakes:
They moved in tracks of shining white
And when they reared, the elfish light
     Fell off in hoary flakes.

     -- Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner