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Summary

Description

The “Grand Chasm,” Tugaloo River, Northern Georgia. A tall view into the Tugaloo River chasm in northern Georgia, with a pine on the cliff at upper left, steep rock faces, trees below, low sun rays and a bird over the gorge. The tree, cliffs, sunlight, bird, signatures and hatching match the scrapbook illustration. The book caption differs from the shorter scrapbook title Grand Chasm—Tugaloo River. Its second caption line, Page 524, is an internal cross-reference; the illustration itself is printed on page 522. An earlier exact witness is recorded in Southern Mountain Rambles, Scribner’s Monthly, vol. VIII, no.1, May 1874, p.25. The present file uses the natural-colour 1875 book scan, and does not establish the physical source copy of the scrapbook cutting.

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.522. 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 119, item 1. This exact 1875 book witness does not identify the physical source copy used for the scrapbook cutting or establish the first publication.

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.
• Earlier exact witness recorded separately: Scribner’s Monthly, vol.VIII, no.1, May 1874, p.25.

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, 1144 × 2705 pixels, RGB. Original JP2: 4368 × 2912 pixels, 1567221 bytes, SHA-256 25ed01ce767cc68aaee2132b22f23cd9830ac3565ea884e78c2bb6a8456f6807.

Lossless 90-degree transpose counterclockwise, followed by the page crop (149, 339)–(2527, 4004) at native pixels. Illustration crop within that upright page: (80, 465)–(1280, 3240). One bicubic alignment correction of 0.774014 degrees counterclockwise, measured from the printed caption baseline. Final trim (28, 28)–(1172, 2733); 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.