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Summary

Description

Haunted Chamber. A bedroom interior accompanying General Egbert L. Viele's article: a curtained bed, upholstered chair, small table with a candle, chest and mirror. Bed, curtains, furniture, wall and floor hatching match the scrapbook. The source prints only the short caption Haunted Chamber; the longer album title is handwritten. Viele is the article author, not an established artist credit. The artist and engraver are not securely identified here.

From The Knickerbockers of New York Two Centuries Ago, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol. LIV (54), no. CCCXIX (319), December 1876, printed p.36. The actual issue opening gives December 1876 and no. 319; the printed volume and issue take precedence over inconsistent catalogue headings. The volume 54 bound range is December 1876 to May 1877, catalogued as 1877; the issue date used here is December 1876.

Compared directly with H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 3, page 235, 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 harpersnew054various, ARK ark:/13960/t3kw80f8k.

• Digitized volume and catalogue record.
• Complete colour page, printed p.36.
• Actual December 1876 issue opening, no. 319.

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, 1651 × 1296 pixels, RGB. Retained complete source JPEG: 2918 × 4847 pixels, 1777748 bytes, SHA-256 0cb2b21ede05ae49220a729b2a9c677133a0509369d0c1827129b83d0e75b996.

Crop from (230, 1870)–(1905, 3190), then trim to (12, 12)–(1663, 1308); right and bottom bounds are exclusive. The printed caption was already level; no rotation or resampling was applied. 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 1876, 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.