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Summary

Description

A Street in Bombay. A busy street in Bombay, with tall buildings, balconies, shutters, shop fronts, awnings and people in the road. The architectural details, hanging signs, foreground adult and child, standing figures, basket carrier, paving lines and hatching match the scrapbook. The full printed frame, complete picture and caption A Street in Bombay.—From a sketch by our special artist. are retained. The generic credit is not expanded to a named artist or engraver. The original sideways printed arrangement is rotated for upright viewing.

From The Illustrated London News, vol. LXVII (67), no. 1893, 20 November 1875, printed p. 517. The complete source-page header prints the date and folio. The issue masthead on the previously reviewed p. 497 prints the number, volume and date; the same retained immutable witness is identified in the dossier. 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 21, item 1. Album images, captions, articles, handwriting, notes, metadata, footnotes and prior sources 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. Canvas 589, labelled 517 (0589). Complete published IIIF full JPEG, not original camera TIFF.

• 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 its colour scans freely accessible.

File and processing

PNG, 3827 × 2722 pixels, RGB; natural paper colour retained. Complete input: 3268 × 4721 pixels, 2330166 bytes, SHA-256 6b28910038af97c1fa91d33d62f51035febf2f0e355e073568f8c396ba04dd32.

Lossless 90-degree clockwise transpose, then crop (435, 300)–(4310, 3070) in the upright image. One bicubic alignment correction of 0.462472 degrees counterclockwise, measured from the robust bottom of the long printed picture-frame rule. Final trim (24, 24)–(3851, 2746); right and bottom bounds are exclusive. No added canvas is retained. The full composition, printed frame or portrait hatching, caption and meaningful marks remain. Original paper or grayscale values, show-through, stains, minor colour moiré where present, and scan artefacts are retained. No enlargement, colour or tonal correction, sharpening, retouching, watermark removal or reconstruction was applied. PNG compression is lossless; the complete original access file remains 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. The exact saved object manifest was reread locally on 2 November 2026; current live changes to the library’s terms are not asserted. No CC0 or other Creative Commons licence is assigned.