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Summary

Description

Creux du Derrible, Sark. The interior of a coastal cavern at Sark, with two bright openings, water, foreground rocks and visitors, from The Channel Islands. The signature W. J. Linton is preserved. The cave openings, rocks, figures and hatching match the right-hand scrapbook view; its caption and outer edges were trimmed in the album. The artist's and engraver's individual roles are not independently established here.

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol.51, no.301, June1875, printed p.13. The issue number and date were read on the actual opening page of this scanned volume. The printed title gives volumeLI; the catalogue headline Volume29 is inconsistent and is not used here.

Compared directly with H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume3, page179, right-hand view. 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 harpersnew51various, ARK ark:/13960/t4dn67r1p.

• Digitized volume and catalogue record.
• Complete colour page, printed p.13.
• 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, 2470 × 1970 pixels, RGB. Retained complete JPEG page: 2991 × 4950 pixels, 1615593 bytes, SHA-256 86c3fabefe3a8834e4e1a926c81fd0ef6fa6caccfb327ae7cda65a7dea052e79.

The engraving and original printed caption were cropped from(280, 2640)–(2790, 4650), aligned by0.155423 degrees clockwise using one bicubic resampling, then trimmed to(20, 20)–(2490, 1990). 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 in1875, 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.