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Summary

Description

The Wissahickon—The Hermit's Pool. A wooded pool with overhanging branches, rocky banks, a large foreground boulder and small cascades. The composition, rocks, branches and hatching match the scrapbook. Original engraved details, signatures where present and the printed caption are retained. Individual artist and engraver roles and full names have not been securely established here.

From Philadelphia and Its Environs, and the Railroad Scenery of Pennsylvania, with 225 illustrations (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., [1875]), printed p.85. The printed title is undated. The Library of Congress copyright stamp, pencilled title-page date, printed copyright verso and catalogue record identify 1875. This is not the Centennial 1876 edition.

Compared directly with H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 3, page 48, item 1. This witness does not establish the first publication or the physical source copy used for the scrapbook cutting.

Source

Original colour camera scan provided by the Library of Congress, through Internet Archive, identifier philadelphiaitse00jb, ARK ark:/13960/t3nv9r31g, catalogue call number 9128414, LCCN 01010600. Shelfmark visible on the copyright verso: F158.5 .P53.

• Digitized book and catalogue record.
• Original camera JP2, leaf 115, printed p. 85.
• Scandata linking the leaf, printed folio, orientation and page crop.
• Original camera title page and printed copyright verso, 1875.

Thank you to the Library of Congress and Internet Archive for preserving this book and making the original colour camera files freely available.

File and processing

PNG, 1067 × 1522 pixels, RGB. Original JP2: 4368 × 2912 pixels, 1304251 bytes, SHA-256 be93b33aa047974ad65c4014f22ad9b012f7d47f1f2b5f973c9d3cce52eb2c63.

Lossless 90-degree transpose clockwise, followed by the documented page crop (203, 419)–(2486, 3867) at native pixels. The illustration fragment was cropped within that page to (90, 1680)–(1205, 3250). One bicubic alignment correction of 1.044856 degrees clockwise, measured from the printed illustration caption. Final trim (24, 24)–(1091, 1546); right and bottom bounds are exclusive. No added canvas is included. Natural paper colour, marks, show-through and engraved details are retained. No PDF rasterization, enlargement, colour or tonal correction, sharpening, retouching or reconstruction was applied. PNG compression is lossless.

Rights

Public-domain historical engraving published in the United States in 1875, reproduced by a faithful library scan. The printed copyright verso is linked above. No Creative Commons licence or Public Domain Mark is attributed to this repository object.