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Summary

Description

A Negro Cabin on the bank of the Tennessee. A timber cabin beside the Tennessee, with a porch, figures at the doorway, a child and animals in front, trees and clouds. The roof, porch supports, figures, animals, trees, clouds, signatures and hatching match the scrapbook image titled Negro House in Tennessee. These historical printed titles differ. The book caption also contains Page 542, an internal cross-reference; the illustration itself is printed on page 544. An earlier exact witness is recorded in Southern Mountain Rambles, Scribner’s Monthly, vol.VIII, no.1, May 1874, p.16. 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.544. 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 162, 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 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.16.
• 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, 2054 × 1579 pixels, RGB. Original JP2: 4368 × 2912 pixels, 1569470 bytes, SHA-256 d01b4bef429e88d2403d4247df835edd02de5eb197fad571430df3e3d4e22a8b.

Lossless 90-degree transpose counterclockwise, followed by the page crop (149, 339)–(2527, 4004) at native pixels. Illustration crop within the upright page: (175, 1080)–(2265, 2695). One bicubic alignment correction of 0.190691 degrees clockwise, measured from the printed illustration caption baseline. Final trim (18, 18)–(2072, 1597); 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.