File:SB-04-142-source-1.png

Summary

Description

St. Brelade’s Church, Jersey. The church of St. Brelade in Jersey, with its sloping roofs, arched doors and windows, enclosed churchyard, gravestones and a man wearing a top hat. The building, railings, monuments, figure, vegetation and hatching match the scrapbook. The engraved surname WELLS is retained; an individual full name is not inferred from that surname alone.

The Channel Islands, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol. LI (51), no. CCCI (301), June 1875, printed p.10. The bound volume covers June to November 1875. The actual printed issue opening supplies the volume number, date and issue number. The individual artist and engraver are not securely identified here.

Compared directly with H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 4, page 142, item 1. This witness does not establish the first publication or identify the physical copy used for the scrapbook cutting.

Source

Original colour camera scan supplied by Brigham Young University–Idaho, David O. McKay Library, through Internet Archive, identifier harpersnew51various, ARK ark:/13960/t4dn67r1p.

• Digitized volume and catalogue record.
• Complete colour source page in the reader.
• Original camera JP2 used for this crop.
• Scandata linking the raw camera leaf, orientation, page crop and printed page.
• Printed issue opening: no.301, June 1875, vol.LI.

Thank you to Brigham Young University–Idaho, David O. McKay Library, and Internet Archive for preserving this volume and freely providing its original colour camera files.

File and processing

PNG, 2475 × 1925 pixels, RGB. Original JP2: 5616 × 3744 pixels, 1575545 bytes, SHA-256 68594a3981355d0280d21135879ce20fae8601258c26d9b5f1888ee72d4cb4e7.

Lossless 90-degree transpose counterclockwise, followed by the page crop (583, 536)–(3559, 5387) at native pixels. Illustration crop within the upright page: (245, 370)–(2760, 2360). One bicubic alignment correction of 0.682506 degrees counterclockwise, measured from the printed illustration caption baseline. Final trim (20, 45)–(2495, 1970); right and bottom bounds are exclusive. No added canvas is included. The complete composition, printed frame, signatures and caption are retained. Natural paper colour, source marks, show-through and engraved details are preserved. 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.