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Summary

Description

“Rock City,” Lookout Mountain. A narrow passage between layered rock formations on Lookout Mountain, with trees, a fallen trunk and a small figure among the rocks. The rock outlines, branching trees, trunk, figure, signatures and hatching match the scrapbook image titled View in Rock City. The book caption differs and includes the internal cross-reference Page 537; the illustration itself is printed on page 539. An earlier exact witness is recorded in Southern Mountain Rambles, Scribner’s Monthly, vol.VIII, no.1, May 1874, p.12. The present file uses the natural-colour 1875 book scan; the physical source copy of the scrapbook cutting is not established.

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.539. The printed 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 illustration. 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 145, 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 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 linking the raw camera leaf, orientation, page crop and printed page.
• Earlier exact witness recorded separately: Scribner’s Monthly, vol.VIII, no.1, May 1874, p.12.
• Printed title page, dated 1875; copyright verso, dated 1874.

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, 1231 × 1376 pixels, RGB. Original JP2: 4368 × 2912 pixels, 1521947 bytes, SHA-256 a56c20766de2f6be4731c1c29d6aba78ea8d9d3aaf7391a7aaa7fb3388c4b51b.

Lossless 90-degree transpose clockwise, followed by the page crop (275, 359)–(2705, 4007) at native pixels. Illustration crop within the upright page: (935, 1720)–(2210, 3140). One bicubic alignment correction of 0.727159 degrees clockwise, measured from the printed illustration caption baseline. Final trim (22, 22)–(1253, 1398); 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.