File:SB-01-027-source-1.jpg

Summary

Description

Cropped and slightly straightened reproduction of the engraving captioned “A Hindoo Guide, with Hubble-bubble.” A seated man wearing a turban holds a water pipe; masonry and a wooden post form the background. The artist and engraver have not been identified.

The composition matches the engraving on H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 1, page 27, image item 3 in the current page markup. This is a later reproduction, not an established source of the album clipping.

Source

Thomas Powell, Illustrated Home Book of the World's Great Nations: Being a Geographical, Historical and Pictorial Encyclopedia (Chicago: Werner, 1893), printed p. 94.

• Internet Archive volume record and digitized book.
• Internet Archive identifier: illustratedhomeb00powerich; library contributor: University of California Libraries; call number: nrlf_ucb:GLAD-50750644; digitization sponsor recorded by Internet Archive: MSN.
• The source page contains several other illustrations. This file includes only the guide with the water pipe and his original printed caption.

Thanks to the University of California Libraries and Internet Archive for making this digitized volume freely available.

File and processing

JPEG, 735 × 1160 pixels. Prepared from the existing 2450 × 3242 full-page JPEG of printed p. 94. The input was retained unchanged. Crop bounds in that page, before alignment: left 1605, top 1970, right 2340, bottom 3130 pixels. A small 0.125-degree counterclockwise alignment was applied from the printed caption baseline, using a single bicubic inverse-affine resampling. No enlargement, colour or tonal adjustment, sharpening, retouching or reconstruction was applied.

The whole engraved composition and printed caption are retained, with a small paper margin. Other illustrations, article text, the column divider, running header and excess page margins are outside this crop. The linked full digitized volume preserves the page context. Source-page SHA-256: 0d63ee4eee9f5cd0f0fb075f4e4517ca33a3424323e9373a21d0c6f19fba4dd3.

Dating and limits

The date 1893 belongs to this book edition. It is not assigned to the album clipping or to the first publication of the engraving. Internet Archive notes an anonymous 1873 edition titled All Round the World, but this does not establish that the image was already present in that edition. The publication used for the album clipping, its original date, and the individual artist and engraver remain unidentified.

Rights statement

The digitized book is identified on Wikimedia Commons as public domain in the United States under its PD US expired statement. The Internet Archive record reports a visible copyright notice dated 1893; it does not supply a separate Creative Commons licence for this crop. The reproduction here retains the source's natural paper colour and printed lines, with only the geometric processing described above.