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Summary

Description

A Buddhist Ordination in Ceylon, numbered scene 3: the robed candidate taking vows before the chapter. Harper's Weekly, vol. XX, no. 999, 19 February 1876, printed p. 152. Date, page, title and three numbered scenes are visible on the complete source page; volume/issue number follow the archive catalogue.

Matches the right/lower portion of the composite illustration on HPB-SB-1-91. The seated monk on an oval cushion, fan, paired cups, Buddha picture, foreground heads, smoke and architectural strokes match. This source identifies only this component: the city/elephants at left, larger bowed figure, Theosophical emblem and overlaid text belong to the album montage and are not attributed to this scene. The picture of Buddha belongs to scene 3, not the separate portrait numbered 2.

The complete individual composition and its original scene number are retained. The three legends and common title are printed together below the whole series; they remain available on the linked complete page and have not been spliced onto this individual crop. A monogram and engraved marks, where present, are retained without assigning an unverified artist or engraver. The particular physical copy used for the album cutting and first publication are unestablished. An earlier matching witness was found in The Graphic, 15 January 1876, p. 64; this file reproduces the later Harper witness, not that digital scan.

Source

Internet Archive, Serials in Microfilm, item sim_harpers-weekly_1876-02-19_20_999, ark:/13960/s26jb4g3psp. Microfilm IA1642822-05, box IA1642822; scanning centre Cebu, catalogue resolution 400ppi. Exact record checked 5 November 2026. The catalogue's Publisher field Out-of-copyright is a rights classification, not the historical publisher's name.

• Exact issue record.
• Complete printed source page 152.
• Source PDF, PDF page 12 (reader leaf 11).

Thank you to Internet Archive for preserving the periodical and freely providing its scan and catalogue. This is a monochrome microfilm scan; natural paper colour has not been recovered or added.

Rights

Historical engraving published in the United States in 1876, public domain there by age. The current exact archive record classifies the issue as Out-of-copyright. This is a faithful reproduction from that microfilm PDF, with source credit retained. No Creative Commons licence, CC0 or institutional Public Domain Mark is claimed.

File and processing

Lossless RGB PNG, 3180 × 2690 pixels; the RGB container represents monochrome source pixels. Source PDF: 15,758,598 bytes, SHA-256 3662dafb61b4ac5bfadc126bb481b68d107b8a09fcf006219b73ba4c4149cc2d. PDF page 12 contains two 4106 × 5870 grayscale JPX layers and a same-sized JBIG2 mask. The complete page was composed on that native 4106 × 5870 grid, retaining both layers and the mask, rather than extracting only a foreground layer. No enlargement.

Alignment measured using 544 inlier edge samples, slope 0.016188965°. The lower boundary is level within 0.1°; crop only, without rotation or resampling. Crop (500, 2350)–(3680, 5040), right/bottom exclusive. Source-supported area and exact independent pixel replay checked. No tonal or colour adjustment, sharpening, retouching or reconstruction. Original complete PDF retained separately.