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Summary

Description

View from Lookout Mountain, near Chattanooga. A view over the winding Tennessee River from a cliff beside Chattanooga: a small building and three figures stand at the left edge of the precipice. The building, figures, cliff edge, river bends, landscape and hatching match the left matrix of the scrapbook collage. The scrapbook joins this independent illustration to Umbrella Rock; the book does not contain a single combined wide image.

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.536. The title 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. The engraved signatures are retained. The copyright verso is dated 1874, Scribner & Co.; that notice is distinct from the printed publication date 1875.

Compared directly with H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 4, page 18, item 2 (left). The two independent compositions are shown in scrapbook order, left View from Lookout Mountain followed by right Umbrella Rock. This book witness does not establish the first publication or identify the physical copy used for the scrapbook cutting.

Source

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

• Digitized volume and catalogue record.
• Complete colour source page in the reader.
• Original camera JP2 used for this crop.
• Scandata mapping the camera leaf, printed page, orientation and page crop.
• Printed title page, dated 1875; copyright verso, dated 1874.

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

File and processing

PNG, 2072 × 1112 pixels, RGB. Original JP2: 4368 × 2912 pixels, 1311150 bytes, SHA-256 afa8f11bcf37d8a7ffe75dcc7874dd819164e2c5aade57c088f709f3d63a3243.

Lossless 90-degree transpose counterclockwise, followed by the page crop (149, 339)–(2527, 4004) at native pixels. Illustration crop within that upright page: (150, 1430)–(2250, 2570). The printed caption is already level (about -0.040 degrees); no fine rotation or resampling was applied. Final trim (14, 14)–(2086, 1126); right and bottom bounds are exclusive. No added canvas is included. The complete relevant composition and printed caption are retained. Original paper colour, marks, show-through and engraved lines remain unchanged. No enlargement, colour or tonal correction, sharpening, retouching or reconstruction was applied. PNG compression is lossless. The complete source remains linked above.

Rights

Public-domain historical illustration 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.