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Summary

Description

A Native Girl in Manilla. Wood engraving showing a standing woman carrying a vessel on her head, with one hand at her waist and a large leaf at her side. The letters L.P. appear at the lower right; the artist and engraver have not been securely identified.

The composition matches H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 1, page 150, item 3, where the printed caption is AN INDIAN GIRL. The different book caption is recorded as a publication fact; it does not independently establish the identity or origin of the depicted woman.

Source

Thomas W. Knox, The Boy Travellers in the Far East, Part Third: Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to Ceylon and India, with Descriptions of Borneo, the Philippine Islands and Burmah (New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1902), printed p. 44. The title page bears 1902; the copyright notice on its reverse bears 1881.

Digitized copy contributed by the Library of Congress to Internet Archive, identifier boytravellersinf01knox, ARK ark:/13960/t6155dx2d; catalogue call-number field 16617154, LCCN tmp96026028. Source image: native RGB JP2 leaf 0048 (PDF page 48), not the low-resolution background layer of the PDF.

• Digitized book record.
• Complete native source image, printed p. 44.
• Matching impression in the 1882 edition, printed p. 44, New York Public Library / Google copy on Internet Archive.

Thank you to the Library of Congress, Internet Archive and the New York Public Library for making these historical materials and records freely available.

File and processing

PNG, 910 × 1820 pixels, RGB. Cropped from the retained 2309 × 3343 pixel source image using the rectangle (230, 820)–(1140, 2640), with right and bottom bounds exclusive. The complete figure, vessel, leaf, ground marks, L.P. letters and original printed caption are retained.

The source is already level. No rotation, perspective correction, resampling, enlargement, colour or tonal correction, sharpening, retouching or reconstruction was applied. Every output pixel is identical to the corresponding source pixel; the scanned paper colour is retained. Original JP2 SHA-256: fbe47add5ef94a0e3368020ea143f8edf41002bd8ea34cf422405b2403e84ef1.

Dating and limitations

The same composition has been verified on printed p. 44 of the 1882 edition, the earliest matching publication located in this research. The present file comes from the later 1902 copy for its natural paper colour. Neither edition establishes the physical source or date of the scrapbook clipping, nor the first publication of the engraving. The scrapbook image and its caption are preserved unchanged.

Rights

Public-domain historical engraving, published in the United States by 1882 and reproduced in the 1902 edition. This statement is based on the dates of the historical publications linked above; no Creative Commons licence or Public Domain Mark is attributed to the online catalogue. The digital source is a faithful library scan credited above.