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Summary

Description

Actieuse Nacht-Wind-Zanger met zyn Tover Slons. A magazine reproduction accompanying James Parton's article: a caricatured night share-crier carrying a magic lantern and staff. The face, hat, costume, lantern, staff, Dutch lettering and number 2 match the scrapbook. The journal identifies the subject as a caricature of John Law and his bubble schemes and dates the prototype Amsterdam, 1720. That is not the date of this 1875 reproduction. The English explanatory caption, absent from the album cutting, is retained here. The prototype's artist and reproduction engraver are not securely identified here.

From Caricature in the Hogarthian Period, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol. LI (51), no. CCCI (301), June 1875, printed p.36. 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 235, item 4. 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.36.
• 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, 1590 × 2270 pixels, RGB. Retained complete source JPEG: 2915 × 4821 pixels, 1758613 bytes, SHA-256 5d8ca4af3240ceadb01488a573670ec7c83d42581ab06b46a4f80ea65afde564.

Crop from (250, 400)–(1880, 2710), then trim to (20, 20)–(1610, 2290); right and bottom bounds are exclusive. Alignment corrected by 0.100457 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.