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Summary

Description

Done Stung Hisself Wid a Bumbly-Bee. A satirical group of four faces, three with hats, from Boys and Girls, credited Illustrated by Porte Crayon at its opening on printed p.19. The complete four-face arrangement, hats, expressions, clothes and linework match the scrapbook cutting. Its original printed caption is absent from the album. The nearby scrapbook text from Spiritual Scientist is a separate work.

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol.54, no.319, December1876, printed p.29. The issue number and date were read on the actual opening page of this scanned volume. The bound volume is catalogued as1877 and covers December1876–May1877.

Compared directly with H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume3, page164, item3. This witness does not establish the first-ever appearance or identify the physical copy used for the scrapbook. Other neighbouring scrapbook pictures and text are not part of this engraving.

Source

Colour scan provided by Brigham Young University–Idaho, David O. McKay Library, through Internet Archive, identifier harpersnew054various, ARK ark:/13960/t3kw80f8k.

• Digitized volume and catalogue record.
• Complete colour page, printed p.29.
• Actual issue opening.

Thank you to Brigham Young University–Idaho, David O. McKay Library, and Internet Archive for preserving this volume and making its colour scan freely available.

File and processing

PNG, 1211 × 1266 pixels, RGB. Retained complete JPEG page: 2201 × 3653 pixels, 1068605 bytes, SHA-256 f05fb95fd44ab6703d404881c4ed1b11e94ff1ca2a550d1c99ee88f337f83cdc.

The engraving and original printed caption were cropped from(800, 1710)–(2035, 3000), aligned by0.242134 degrees clockwise using one bicubic resampling, then trimmed to(12, 12)–(1223, 1278). Right and bottom bounds are exclusive. No added canvas is included. The complete page remains linked above. Natural paper colour, marks and show-through are preserved. No enlargement, colour or tonal correction, sharpening, retouching or reconstruction was applied. PNG compression is lossless; the source itself is JPEG.

Rights

Public-domain historical engraving published in the United States in1876, reproduced by a faithful library scan. The issue opening carries the original copyright notice. No Creative Commons licence or Public Domain Mark is attributed to this repository object.