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Summary

Description

Louisa May Alcott. Engraved portrait of Louisa May Alcott, showing her curled hair, dress and brooch. The artist and engraver have not been securely identified here.

From Concord Books, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol. LI (51), no. CCCI (301), June 1875, printed p.28. The issue number and date are printed on the actual opening page of this scanned volume. Its printed title gives volumeLI; the repository headline Volume29 is inconsistent with both that title and its volume51 metadata and is not used here.

The face, hair, dress, brooch and hatching match the scrapbook. The complete journal page, linked below, already prints the facsimile Very much yours / L. M. Alcott. This derivative contains the portrait only; the facsimile and surrounding prose remain visible on the full source page. Compared directly with H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume3, page201, item2. This witness does not establish the first-ever appearance or identify the physical copy used for the scrapbook. The album text and editorial notes are not changed.

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.28.
• Actual June1875 issue opening, no.301.

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, 1266 × 1251 pixels, RGB. Retained complete source JPEG: 2915 × 4836 pixels, 1864399 bytes, SHA-256 e889bcad94e82b22e87a5479370d63b83da4783f1ad786603d3a3dbd3e8a01fd.

Crop from(1430, 2760)–(2720, 4035), then trim to(12, 12)–(1278, 1263); right and bottom bounds are exclusive. The printed page header was corrected by 0.143849 degrees counterclockwise with one bicubic resampling. The slant of a drawn or facsimile signature was not used as an alignment reference. No added canvas is included. 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. The complete page, with all original text and any printed facsimile, remains linked above.

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.