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Summary

Description

A Woman of the Lower Ranks of Cuzco. A woman seen from behind in a Cuzco street, wrapped in a shawl over a striped skirt, with an arched doorway and balcony at left, walls at right and a foreground shadow. The woman, clothing bands, architecture, shadow, sky and linework match the scrapbook captioned Cuzco Costumes—Woman of the Lower Order. The English book caption differs. The lower illustration on the same source page is a different woman in profile and is not included.

Paul Marcoy, Travels in South America from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean, vol.I (London: Blackie & Son, Paternoster Buildings, E.C.; Glasgow and Edinburgh, 1875), printed p.241, upper illustration under the heading Acopia to Cuzco. The physically read title credits 525 wood engravings drawn by E. Riou and ten maps from drawings by the author; that is a book-level credit, not proof of the individual engraver or the immediate scrapbook carrier. An earlier exact witness is recorded in Le Tour du Monde, 1863, first half-year, p.278, captioned Femme du peuple, à Cuzco.

Compared directly with H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 4, page 163, item 3. The scrapbook image, handwriting, notes and transcription remain a separate witness. This matching composition does not establish the first publication or identify the physical copy used for the scrapbook cutting.

Source

Natural-colour scan supplied by Robarts Library, University of Toronto, through Internet Archive, identifier travelsinsoutham01marcuoft, ARK ark:/13960/t2d799m2n, catalogue call number AET-7932.

• Complete source page, printed p.241, access index270.
• Original camera JP2, raw leaf271, used for this crop.
• Scandata identifying raw leaf271 as printed page241, with its 90-degree orientation and page crop.
• Physically read title page, dated 1875.
• Earlier exact French witness, Le Tour du Monde, 1863, p.278.

Thank you to Robarts Library, University of Toronto, and Internet Archive for preserving this volume and freely providing its original scans and page metadata.

File and processing

PNG, 1004 × 1079 pixels, RGB. Original camera JP2: 5010 × 3336 pixels, 665987 bytes, SHA-256 c021b7b312a19dfdd1b6b3becb69a6e6f510f000375098e7357b42b4395c6ed9.

Lossless 90-degree transpose clockwise, followed by the documented page crop (260, 584)–(2618, 4022). This is the original camera file, not the previously retained processed page JP2. Both representations are preserved in the research dossier; the original-camera crop is not claimed to provide a large increase in resolution. Illustration crop (635, 480)–(1675, 1595). One bicubic alignment correction of 1.640242 degrees counterclockwise, measured from the printed illustration caption baseline. Final trim (18, 18)–(1022, 1097); right and bottom bounds are exclusive. No added canvas is included. The complete relevant composition, printed frame where present, title and caption are retained. Original paper colour, source marks, show-through and scan artefacts remain. No enlargement, colour or tonal correction, sharpening, retouching or reconstruction was applied. PNG compression is lossless. The complete source is linked above.

Rights

Public-domain historical illustration in an 1875 book, reproduced by a faithful library scan. The repository records a stated date of 1875 and no visible copyright notice; this is not described as a Creative Commons licence or Public Domain Mark.