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Summary

Description

The Raven: seated man and two winged figures. A man sits with his head lowered on his crossed arms at a table; two small winged figures appear above, beside a profile formed in the clouds. The face, arms, table and pedestal, scroll chair, books, curtain, cloud profile, winged figures, printed border and hatching match the scrapbook. The external source retains the SCATTERGOOD signature. No identity is assigned to the figures beyond the scene in Poe’s poem.

From Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven (Philadelphia: Tyndale, Mitchell & Co., No.707 Chestnut Street, undated), printed p.5, raw leaf6. 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, page111, 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, 1193 × 1403 pixels, RGB. Complete input: 1792 × 2808 pixels, 380616 bytes, SHA-256 561088afd901bb76fffd93338e051bf8abd91757dab4880bbe4d4a7482685380. Representation: native processed access-scan JP2, original camera TIFF not reviewed.

crop (270, 350)–(1495, 1785) in the upright image. One bicubic alignment correction of 0.413159 degrees clockwise, measured from the robust bottom of long printed picture-frame rule. Final trim (16, 16)–(1209, 1419); 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.