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Summary

Description

Le grand temple d’Amritsir et l’Amrita-Sara ou lac de l’immortalité. An ornate temple beside a pool, with two tall minarets, surrounding buildings and trees, and detailed reflections. Architectural details, foliage, water hatching and the E. THEROND and C. LAPLANTE signatures match the scrapbook engraving titled The Temple at Umritzur. This French edition retains its own French caption; the different English album caption is not substituted into the scanned plate.

From Louis Rousselet, L’Inde des rajahs: Voyage dans l’Inde centrale et dans les présidences de Bombay et du Bengale, deuxième édition (Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1877). The physical title page prints 1877, 317 wood engravings and six maps. The plate is labelled 655 in the scan’s page sequence, raw leaf713 / reader n674; the complete plate has no clearly legible printed folio, so 655 is used as the sequence label. The earlier English-language carrier and the physical impression used in the scrapbook are not established. Signatures are retained exactly as printed; no unidentified photographer is named.

Compared directly with H. P. Blavatsky’s Scrapbooks, volume4, page104, item2. The album image, printed album caption, handwriting, notes and transcription remain separate witnesses and are not altered.

Source

University of Ottawa / Internet Archive, digitized volume lindedesrajahsvo00rous. The complete published access JPEG and the matching title page are retained; this is a processed page scan, with no claim to original camera resolution.

• Digitized book.
• Complete matching plate.
• Complete published page JPEG used for this crop.
• Physical title page.
• Page-sequence metadata.

Thank you to the University of Ottawa and Internet Archive for preserving this volume and making its colour scan freely accessible.

File and processing

PNG, 2880 × 2060 pixels, RGB. Complete input: 2484 × 3603 pixels, 925668 bytes, SHA-256 2865bba0033cd8057ca04447a1fe35b669d3565ffb78aec4d792cca5034601d2. Representation: complete published page JPEG, processed access scan.

Lossless 90-degree clockwise transpose, then crop (320, 190)–(3240, 2290) in the upright image. One bicubic alignment correction of 0.601317 degrees clockwise, measured from the robust bottom of long printed picture-frame rule. Final trim (20, 20)–(2900, 2080); right and bottom bounds are exclusive. No added canvas is included. The complete French caption, full picture frame and E. THEROND/C. LAPLANTE signatures are retained. The scan’s fold/stitch bands in the water are retained without retouching. Original paper colour, marks, folds, show-through and scan artefacts remain. No enlargement, colour or tonal correction, sharpening, retouching or reconstruction was applied. PNG compression is lossless; the decoded source is JPG.

Rights

Public-domain nineteenth-century printed engraving, faithfully reproduced by the library scan. The source edition is physically dated1877; the underlying illustration and exact scan provenance are identified above.