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Summary

Description

British Idolatry of the Opera Singer Mingotti.—1756. A caricature of an opera singer elevated on a table, with three figures below, musical books and a cat. The figures, costumes, gestures, furniture, books, cat, printed caption and four-line verse match the scrapbook. The journal dates the prototype 1756; this is its 1875 magazine reproduction, not an eighteenth-century impression. The earlier artist and this 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.49. The printed issue opening supplies the issue number and date.

Compared directly with H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 3, page 250, item 3. This witness does not establish the first publication or identify the physical copy used for the scrapbook cutting.

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. 49.
• 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, 1476 × 1526 pixels, RGB. Retained complete source JPEG: 2960 × 4905 pixels, 1759892 bytes, SHA-256 3040da099d913979a20425a787e58826ff9068c12189dc2ae5559858d8669791.

Crop from (1200, 3000)–(2700, 4550). One bicubic alignment correction of 0.322049 degrees clockwise, measured from the printed caption or retained verse baseline. Final trim (12, 12)–(1488, 1538); right and bottom bounds are exclusive. No added canvas is included. The complete composition and printed caption are retained; for Mingotti the accompanying verse is also 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.