File:SB-01-098-source-1.jpg

Summary

Description

The Physician and the Hyena, by Frederick Stuart Church. Museum impression dated 1878; black ink on paper. This composition matches the engraving on H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 1, page 98, item 2.

The same illustration appears in G. Washington Æsop [George Thomas Lanigan], Fables (1878), p. 43; the fable's title is on p. 42. This is a matching museum impression, not a claim that the album clipping came from that book. The first publication and the physical carrier of the album clipping remain unestablished.

Source

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, accession 1938-57-1070-185, The Physician and the Hyena. Credit line: Bequest of Erskine Hewitt. The catalogue identifies Frederick Stuart Church as illustrator, dates the item 1878 and describes the medium as printed in black ink on paper. Catalogue status: Research in Progress.

• Smithsonian object record.
• Cooper Hewitt object record.
• Official full-resolution source TIFF.
• Official full-resolution JPEG.
• Smithsonian Open Access metadata repository and public dataset documentation. The object record and its media are marked CC0 in the official published export, record chndm_1938-57-1070-185.
• Matching illustration in Fables (1878), printed p. 43.

Thanks to Cooper Hewitt and the Smithsonian Institution for providing the image and metadata freely through Smithsonian Open Access, and to Internet Archive for the digitized book.

File and processing

JPEG, 1312 × 2205 pixels. Derived directly from the official uncompressed 4593 × 5457 RGB TIFF. The complete source is retained unchanged. One four-corner perspective alignment and crop was applied, with one bicubic resampling. The frame corners in the source image are (1261,1370), (2533,1372), (2542,3537), and (1259,3546), clockwise from the top left, measured to approximately 5 pixels. Small paper margins retain the full engraving and printed border. The surrounding museum album page, outer surrounding rule and accession annotation elsewhere on the page are outside the crop. There is no printed caption inside this illustration to remove.

No enlargement, added background, colour or tonal correction, sharpening, retouching or reconstruction was applied. Source TIFF SHA-256: 82b6ae21335ead11119b946e8d50329b4de713453259c6e210c4d2129cab978e.

Rights

The object metadata and this media resource are designated CC0 by Smithsonian Open Access. See CC0 1.0 Universal and the Smithsonian Open Access programme. The museum credit and accession number above identify the source impression.