File:SB-04-144-source-1.png

Summary

Description

Cohasset Narrows—Head of Buzzard’s Bay. A view across Cohasset Narrows at the head of Buzzard’s Bay: a low bridge, houses and a flag stand beyond a small boat carrying a person, with sailing vessels at the right. The bridge supports, flag, houses, small boat, ships, shoreline and hatching match the scrapbook.

Cape Cod, Nantucket, and the Vineyard, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol. LI (51), no. CCCI (301), June 1875, printed p.60. 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 144, item 2. 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, 2424 × 1299 pixels, RGB. Original JP2: 5616 × 3744 pixels, 1524566 bytes, SHA-256 d7b516d121223a8ef777a6d58df91a39ad002e4d2733cfbcc8d073cf7d292131.

Lossless 90-degree transpose counterclockwise, followed by the page crop (665, 608)–(3648, 5497) at native pixels. Illustration crop within the upright page: (240, 365)–(2700, 1700). One bicubic alignment correction of 0.206602 degrees counterclockwise, measured from the printed illustration caption baseline. Final trim (18, 18)–(2442, 1317); 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.