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Summary

Description

The Pyramids of Egypt. Engraving showing pyramids, palm trees, people and camels. The printed engraving credit reads BOBBETT & EDMONDS. SC. The designer of the drawing has not been established.

Published in The Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated, vol. 61, no. 1 (whole no. 439), July 1875, printed p. 35, within The Seven Wonders of the World. The title page of this copy establishes the title, volume and issue numbering used here. The library catalogue's issue value 7 denotes the July calendar issue and is not substituted for the printed no. 1.

The composition, lettering and engraving credit match H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 3, page 19, item 2. The same composition also occurs on volume 9, page 62. This witness does not establish the first-ever appearance of the image or identify the particular physical copy used in the scrapbook.

Source

Colour scan made freely available by the University of Akron, Drs. Nicholas and Dorothy Cummings Center for the History of Psychology, Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr. Popular Psychology Magazine Collection. The catalogue identifies its source as the Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr. papers; a more specific physical-copy shelfmark is not stated.

• Library record 30421.
• Complete source PDF, file 30422.pdf, 83 pages. Printed p. 35 is PDF page 32; the journal title page is PDF page 3.

Retained PDF: 173714763 bytes, SHA-256 c5eee17e476c1a0bad03e1b95a6ebc602679e23c20d829452dc720d7dc37358c. Thank you to the University of Akron and the Cummings Center for preserving this historical issue and making the colour scan freely available.

File and processing

PNG, 1230 × 918 pixels, RGB, retaining the natural colour of the paper. The original embedded JPEG stream on PDF page 32 was extracted unchanged: 1854 × 2884 pixels, 1715506 bytes, SHA-256 5f5de6d25690b3275b03f28100e866ba4af4519985dcc2d0890e1ac444f2830f.

The page image was aligned 0.61 degrees clockwise with one bicubic resampling, then cropped to (280, 990)–(1510, 1908) in the expanded 1886 × 2904 pixel image; right and bottom bounds are exclusive. The crop lies entirely within the original source image. The complete composition, engraving credit and printed caption are preserved; adjacent prose is outside the crop and remains available in the complete source PDF.

The source PDF's sRGB IEC61966-2.1 colour profile is embedded in the PNG without converting the pixel values. No enlargement, colour or tonal correction, sharpening, retouching or reconstruction was applied.

Rights

Public-domain historical engraving published in New York in 1875, based on the original issue linked above. The University of Akron is credited as provider of the faithful colour scan. No modern Creative Commons licence or Public Domain Mark is attributed to the library: its item record does not state one.