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Summary

Description

Fig. 22—Mirth. Historical engraving from the illustrated article headed Eyes: Their Differences, Etc. in The Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated, July 1874, printed p. 22. The illustration's artist and engraver have not been established. The caption is transcribed as a historical printed label.

The drawing, its engraving lines, figure number and caption match H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 3, page 19, item 6. The particular physical copy used for the scrapbook and the first-ever appearance of the drawing are not identified by this witness.

Source

The Wellcome Library copy digitized by the Internet Archive, item s5967id1397957, from the bound 1874 run of The Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated:

• Library/Internet Archive item record.
• Public source files.
• Complete colour source page at its processed-image dimensions, 2753 × 4574 pixels, IA leaf 434, printed p. 22.

The page-to-leaf mapping is established by the archive's public scandata and the printed page header. The scan retains the natural colour, marks and show-through of the paper. The retained archive metadata identifies the Wellcome Library as contributor and sponsor; a more specific physical-copy shelfmark is not established here. Thank you to the Wellcome Library and Internet Archive for preserving this issue and making the colour scan freely available.

File and processing

PNG, 668 × 728 pixels, RGB. The source is the archive BookReader's full-size JPEG rendering of the processed JP2 page, not the original camera file. Retained JPEG: 1503948 bytes, SHA-256 bbc1eb8e4524266a49ac194c0fed32e8bdab2bb1111ffc7cb75fd09ac897867f.

The complete figure and its original printed caption were first cropped from source coordinates (1430, 2960)–(2110, 3700), then aligned 0.46 degrees clockwise with one bicubic resampling. The expanded crop (686 × 746 pixels) was trimmed to (9, 9)–(677, 737). All right and bottom bounds are exclusive. A source-area mask confirms that the output lies entirely within the original image; no added canvas is included. Adjacent prose is excluded and remains available on the complete source page.

No enlargement, colour or tonal correction, sharpening, retouching or reconstruction was applied.

Rights

Public-domain historical engraving published in New York in 1874. The dating basis is the printed issue and its page headers linked above. The Internet Archive catalogue metadata retained on 28 October 2026 identifies the collection as the Wellcome Library and supplies the Public Domain Mark 1.0; this is a public-domain status mark, not a Creative Commons attribution licence. The scan providers are credited above.