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Summary

Description

Sir Robert Walpole Paring the Nails of the British Lion. A magazine reproduction accompanying James Parton's article: a standing man with a sword rests one hand on a seated lion; another man works on its claws, with regalia on the ground. Figures, gestures, lion, weapons, regalia, hatching and full printed caption match the scrapbook. The album's handwritten comment about Beaconsfield is a later annotation, not the source caption. This witness is the 1875 magazine reproduction; the earlier prototype's date and artist are not securely established here.

From Caricature in the Hogarthian Period, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol. LI (51), no. CCCI (301), June 1875, printed p.48. The actual issue opening gives June 1875 and no. 301; the printed volume and issue take precedence over inconsistent catalogue headings.

Compared directly with H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 3, page 229, item 2. This witness does not establish the first-ever appearance or identify the physical copy used for the scrapbook.

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.48.
• Actual June 1875 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, 1356 × 1256 pixels, RGB. Retained complete source JPEG: 2945 × 4874 pixels, 1583675 bytes, SHA-256 f76b60c6e3264ac19ec679b1e81035f8e2f12af177a8b5cf48e5009d93f7f3f8.

Crop from (260, 410)–(1640, 1690), then trim to (12, 12)–(1368, 1268); right and bottom bounds are exclusive. Alignment corrected by 0.104795 degrees counterclockwise with one bicubic resampling. The engraving and original caption are retained. 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 remains linked above.

Rights

Public-domain historical engraving published in the United States in 1875, 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.