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Summary

Description

The Palace of Ghezireh, Cairo. The Palace of Ghezireh, Cairo, seen across the water, with two large wings, connecting arcades, steps, trees, a small rowing boat and a larger sailing boat. Building details, figures, palms, railings, boats and reflections match the scrapbook. The complete composition, frame and printed caption The Prince’s Visit to India: The Palace of Ghezireh, Cairo. are retained. No individual artist, engraver or photographic source is established here.

From The Illustrated London News, vol. LXVII (67), no. 1893, 20 November 1875, printed p. 501. 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 23, 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 569, labelled 501 (0569). 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, 2860 × 1840 pixels, RGB; natural paper colour retained. Complete input: 3250 × 4721 pixels, 2686829 bytes, SHA-256 e2b11472c6e3feee7a71624002610336e23df34bbff58e50d9b192b5b3a2c7bd.

crop (205, 505)–(3105, 2385) in the upright image. One bicubic alignment correction of 0.561954 degrees counterclockwise, measured from the robust bottom of the long printed picture-frame rule. Final trim (20, 20)–(2880, 1860); 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.