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Summary

Description

Great Head. Moonlight over a rocky coastal headland. The moon, clouds, crags, shore and foreground fissures match the scrapbook. The surrounding chapter identifies Marblehead; this is not the different Great Head at Mount Desert. The handwritten album note about two spirits or suicides belongs to the scrapbook layer and is not the original print caption. Original adjacent book prose wraps below the engraving at the lower right and is retained without masking or replacement paper. The individual artist and engraver are not securely identified here. Samuel Adams Drake is the book’s author, not an established picture credit.

From Samuel Adams Drake, Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast (New York: Harper & Brothers, [c1875]), printed p. 229. The scanned copy has an undated title-page imprint and is catalogued [c1875]; its copyright verso explicitly reads 1875. The impression date is not separately printed. This matching book reproduction does not establish the first appearance or the physical copy from which the scrapbook cutting was taken.

Compared directly with H. P. Blavatsky’s Scrapbooks, volume 3, page 258, item 1.

Source

Colour scan from the Library of Congress, via Internet Archive, identifier nookssofnewland00drak. The shelfmark visible on the copyright verso is F9 .D75; Library of Congress record 08002681.

• Complete digitized book.
• Complete source page, printed p. 229.
• Title page; copyright verso, dated 1875.
• Library of Congress catalogue record.

Thank you to the Library of Congress and Internet Archive for preserving this book and providing free public access to its colour scan. Project Gutenberg’s transcription and illustrations also helped identify the matching composition.

File and processing

PNG, 1246 × 2586 pixels, RGB. Complete retained source JPEG: 2132 × 3212 pixels, 1091586 bytes, SHA-256 dd54c04a81492cb43ba9f01797d8f6af821bf0034ac9372001e4f1cd7303d4e1. This crop uses the library’s full-size access JPEG.

Crop from (40, 220) to (1310, 2830), followed by one bicubic alignment rotation of 0.347524 degrees clockwise, and final trim from (12, 12) to (1258, 2598); right and bottom bounds are exclusive. Caption alignment was measured before and after processing. The composition, printed caption, natural paper colour, marks, stains and show-through are retained. No added canvas, enlargement, colour or tonal correction, sharpening, retouching or reconstruction was applied. PNG compression is lossless; the source JPEG remains unchanged.

Rights

Historical American book illustration from a work copyrighted in 1875 and catalogued [c1875], in the US public domain by publication age, reproduced by a faithful library scan. No Creative Commons licence or Public Domain Mark is asserted for this specific repository object.