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Summary

Description

Visit of the Prince of Wales to India: decorative banner. Complete decorative banner Visit of the Prince of Wales to India, with large ornamental INDIA lettering, flowers, leaves, stars and the printed rectangular border. The scrapbook retains a cropped part of this design, with the upper lettering partly cut away; the central letters and surrounding ornaments match. This is the complete matching external impression, not a reconstruction or alteration of the scrapbook cutting. No individual designer or engraver is established.

From The Illustrated London News, vol. LXVII (67), no. 1893, Saturday, 20 November 1875, special supplement, printed p. 513. The physical opening-page masthead prints the issue number, volume and date. The other complete source-page headers likewise print the date and folio. The opening page’s folio 497 is identified by the volume sequence and library canvas label; a visible printed 497 is not claimed on the masthead. The first publication in all editions and the physical copy used for the scrapbook cutting are not established.

Compared directly with H. P. Blavatsky’s Scrapbooks, volume 5, page 9, item 1. Original album images, captions, notes, handwriting, metadata, transcription and previous materials remain unchanged.

Source

München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, shelfmark 2 Per. 15 f-67, digital object bsb11307645; BSB-ID 991019497679707356; URN urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb11307645-2. Complete published IIIF full JPEG, not an original camera TIFF. Library canvas 585, labelled 513 (0585).

• Complete source page in the library viewer.
• Persistent library record.
• Official IIIF manifest.
• Complete published full-size JPEG used for this crop.

Thank you to Bayerische Staatsbibliothek for preserving this volume and making the colour scans freely accessible.

File and processing

PNG, 2814 × 964 pixels, RGB. Complete input: 3274 × 4727 pixels, 2536601 bytes, SHA-256 ec2e811b26f5a0de9e28d27b2fc5809f562cbdba0c01ab2174aa4d52d01577f2.

crop (90, 395)–(2940, 1395) in the upright image. No fine resampling: the measured frame-rule slope is already within tolerance (+0.094184 degrees). The orientation reference is the robust bottom of the long printed picture-frame rule; the scan’s slight local paper curvature is retained. Final trim (18, 18)–(2832, 982); right and bottom bounds are exclusive. No added canvas is retained. Complete printed picture, frame, caption or decorative border and meaningful marks remain. Original paper colour, show-through, stains, minor colour moiré and scan artefacts remain. No enlargement, tonal or colour correction, sharpening, retouching, watermark removal or reconstruction was applied. PNG compression is lossless; the input JPEG is preserved unchanged.

Rights

The retained official BSB IIIF manifest specifies No Copyright — Non-Commercial Use Only (NoC-NC 1.0). The library attribution and stated non-commercial restriction are retained. The underlying 1875 printed engraving is public-domain historical material. This statement is from the saved exact-object manifest, reread locally on 2 November 2026; a fresh live change to the library’s terms is not asserted. No CC0 or other Creative Commons licence is assigned.