Albatrosses in Russian art?

[William Ryan]

Better not to "render" the name - leave it as Letatlin.
The albatross picture is not necessarily a painting, or Russian. Try 
plate 8 of Gustave Doré's 1876 edition of Coleridge's Rime of the 
Ancient Mariner. Doré's illustrated editions were very well known all 
over Europe and America.

Will Ryan

On 05/08/2013 02:34, Ian Appleby wrote:
> Dear Colleagues
>
> I am currently enjoying working on a series of pieces about V.E. 
> Tatlin's somewhat unlikely flying machine. It is, rather brilliantly, 
> called Letatlin in Russian; I am not quite sure that my attempt to 
> render the name in English as Levitatlin quite does it justice.
>
> Anyway, one such piece is I. Rakhtanov's recollections of Tatlin and 
> his machine, in which the following line appears: "Nad publikoi 
> kolykhalas' shirokokrylaia ptitsa, napominavshaia al'batrosa s 
> izvestnoi kartinki." I confess that the painting in question is not 
> sufficiently well-known to me, nor do search engines seem to help. The 
> encounter took place on April 5, 1932, and his recollections were - he 
> claims - written shortly after, so we can probably discount later 
> works, although the edition I am working from was apparently published 
> in 1973. It is a throwaway line, not crucial to the overall piece, but 
> I must confess it has piqued my curiosity. I would be very grateful 
> for any suggestions as to what Rakhtanov may have had in mind.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Ian
>
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