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Summary

Description

Light and Shadow — drawn by M. W. Ridley, The Illustrated London News, Christmas Number, 15 December 1875, printed p. 24. The title, artist credit, date and page were read on the complete source scan. A woman and child huddled on snowy steps beside iron railings and a lit window; the figures, railings, snow and architecture match the album. Exact composition matches item 1 on HPB-SB-5-27. Other engraved signatures or monograms are retained without assigning an unverified engraver. The exact physical copy used for the album cutting and first-ever publication are not claimed.

Source

K. K. Venugopal personal collection, as identified by the public catalogue; Digital Library of India / Internet Archive, item dli.venugopal.529, ark:/13960/t40s8fb4n. Catalogue title Illustrated London News (July-Dec) Vol-067, citation WC -13, identifier Vol-067; catalogue resolution 300ppi. Record checked 5 November 2026. The archive's creator field Milford House is retained as catalogue metadata, not substituted for the historical artist or an unverified 1875 publisher. This is the independent DLI colour witness, not the separately found BNA reproduction.

• Exact volume record.
• Complete source page, reader leaf 576, printed p. 24.
• Original complete-page JPEG.

Thank you to the K. K. Venugopal collection, Digital Library of India and Internet Archive for preserving and freely providing this volume and its scan. The existing diagonal venugopalbooks.com watermark is retained without retouching; it is a modern digitization mark, not part of the 1875 engraving. No connection to the present unrelated website or licence from that website is asserted.

Rights

The historical engraving was published in 1875 and is public domain in the United States by age; its published-work term has expired under 17 U.S.C. sections 304-305. Foreign-work restoration would provide only the remainder of the original U.S. term under section 104A(a)(1)(B). A faithful scan of the two-dimensional printed engraving adds no original authorship: U.S. Copyright Office Compendium, section 313.4(A). This is a statutory U.S. public-domain basis, not an item-specific institutional permission or Creative Commons licence. No CC0, Public Domain Mark or worldwide public-domain claim is made. Historical credits and the source watermark are preserved.

File and processing

Lossless RGB PNG, 2715 × 3820 pixels, preserving natural paper colour. Source JPEG 2928 × 4408; SHA-256 d42138a83254f75efcdf1a908a99c14eb14d30ca98380b39a2b18260bb076936, retained unchanged. One 0.296397789° counterclockwise BICUBIC rotation on the complete canvas without expansion, then crop. Alignment is the mean of robust native-pixel fits of the actual top and bottom outer frame, with 2375 / 2174 inlier samples. Minor original page curvature is retained; no perspective warping. Crop (105, 350)–(2820, 4170), right/bottom exclusive, retains the complete illustration, frame, marks and original caption. No enlargement, tonal or colour adjustment, sharpening, retouching, watermark removal or reconstruction. Independent exact pixel replay checked. The running header remains available in the linked complete source page.