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Summary

Description

Oleander Walk at Galveston. A couple walks beneath an arch of trees, with a fence at the right and a church spire beyond. The people, trunks, branches, fence, path, distant figures, spire and hatching match the lower-left scrapbook view. The book uses a sentence about the nearby oleander grove and surf as its caption; the album cutting instead reads Oleander Walk at Galveston. This is a matching composition with a different printed caption, not proof of the physical source copy used for the cutting.

Edward King, The Great South: A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland (Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, 1875), printed p.102. The title page dates the book 1875 and credits original sketches to J. Wells Champney for the volume as a whole; this does not establish the individual artist or engraver of this particular composition. Its engraved signatures, where present, are retained. The copyright verso reads 1874, Scribner & Co.; that notice is distinct from the printed 1875 publication date.

Compared directly with H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 3, page 241, item 1. This witness does not establish the first publication or identify the physical copy used for the scrapbook cutting.

Source

Original colour camera scan provided by the Library of Congress, through Internet Archive, identifier greatsouthrecord01king, ARK ark:/13960/t9087300x, catalogue call number 10064268, LCCN rc 01002442.

• Digitized book and catalogue record.
• Original camera JP2, leaf 112, printed p. 102.
• Complete colour page in the reader.
• Scandata mapping the camera leaf to the printed page, orientation and page crop.
• Original title page, dated 1875; original copyright verso, dated 1874.

Thank you to the Library of Congress and Internet Archive for preserving this book and making its original colour camera files freely available.

File and processing

PNG, 1573 × 1218 pixels, RGB. Original camera JP2: 4368 × 2912 pixels, 1533333 bytes, SHA-256 25bbdee76121b1ecd99c7950017b0470261631c9fd16bbb2a553082172bd039c.

Lossless 90-degree transpose counterclockwise, followed by the documented page crop (102, 330)–(2501, 4000) at native pixels. The illustration was then cropped within that page to (55, 600)–(1660, 1850). One bicubic alignment correction of 0.570674 degrees clockwise, measured from the printed caption or retained verse baseline. Final trim (16, 16)–(1589, 1234); right and bottom bounds are exclusive. No added canvas is included. The complete composition and printed caption are retained. Natural paper colour, marks, show-through and engraved details are preserved. No enlargement, colour or tonal correction, sharpening, retouching or reconstruction was applied. PNG compression is lossless. The complete source page remains linked above.

Rights

Public-domain historical engraving published in the United States in 1875, reproduced by a faithful library scan. No Creative Commons licence or Public Domain Mark is attributed to this repository object.