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Summary

Description

The Raven: man beside a Gothic window. A man turns left beside a small table and a Gothic window in a circular composition, with one hand on the table and the other on a chair. The face, posture, hands, table legs, chair, window, drapery and hatching match the scrapbook. The external source retains the SCATTERGOOD signature at lower right. The figure is a man; no portrait identity is assigned.

From Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven (Philadelphia: Tyndale, Mitchell & Co., No.707 Chestnut Street, undated), printed p.3, raw leaf4. The physical cover credits the wood engravings to SCATTERGOOD, and this engraving is signed SCATTERGOOD. A separate original draughtsman is not established here. The cover has no printed year. A handwritten promotional note on its verso ends Christmas 1870; this dates the use of this copy, not a printed impression year. The music page separately prints a copyright entry in 1865 by D. Scattergood. The repository catalogues the pamphlet as1865; that catalogue date and the music copyright are not silently substituted for an impression date. This exact witness does not establish the physical impression used for the scrapbook cutting or the first appearance of the woodcut.

Compared directly with H. P. Blavatsky’s Scrapbooks, volume4, page107, item1. The album image, printed album caption, handwriting, notes and transcription remain separate witnesses and are not altered.

Source

Lehigh University Libraries / Lehigh Special Collections, via Internet Archive, item the-raven-1865, ARK ark:/13960/t6c32pv7h. The native processed access-scan JP2 is used; the larger original camera TIFF was not reviewed. The naturally dark brown paper remains unlightened.

• Digitized pamphlet and catalogue record.
• Exact complete processed JP2 leaf used for this crop.
• Complete public JP2 archive.
• Poe Society bibliography, including the Christmas1870 note.

Thank you to Lehigh University Libraries and Internet Archive for preserving this pamphlet and making its scans freely accessible.

File and processing

PNG, 1324 × 1459 pixels, RGB. Complete input: 1792 × 2808 pixels, 422242 bytes, SHA-256 02ee325ddc0ccb0dfc5a2ecfb39cd9d520829e7048d88549a29ba71a31dc2ed4. Representation: native processed access-scan JP2, original camera TIFF not reviewed.

crop (210, 345)–(1570, 1840) in the upright image. One bicubic alignment correction of 0.457248 degrees clockwise, measured from the robust glyph baseline of the first verse line below the illustration. Final trim (18, 18)–(1342, 1477); right and bottom bounds are exclusive. No added canvas is included. The complete engraving, printed border or picture background, all figures and the SCATTERGOOD signature are retained. The adjoining poem remains on the linked complete source page; it is not a separate image caption. The orientation reference is explicitly recorded below. 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 JP2.

Rights

The saved Internet Archive catalogue metadata, captured on 29 October2026, specifies Public Domain Mark1.0 for this item. The underlying nineteenth-century engraving and poem are public-domain historical material.