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Summary

Description

Lois Lancaster — drawn by F. S. Walker, The Illustrated London News, Christmas Number, 15 December 1875, printed p. 17. The title, artist credit, date and page were read on the complete source scan. The fictional Lois Lancaster standing by a window with an open letter, beside a round table and patterned stool; the figure, folds and furnishings match the album. Exact composition matches item 1 on HPB-SB-5-35. The caption identifies this as an illustration to With a Silken Thread by Mrs. Lynn Linton; Lois is a character, not an identified photographic sitter. The complete printed literary caption remains in the crop. 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 569, printed p. 17.
• 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, 2600 × 3990 pixels, preserving natural paper colour. Source JPEG 2928 × 4408; SHA-256 9e6387cf0082069b0b12de377c1e7a6018e20f1e916a366339160957bfff79d3, retained unchanged. The mean outer-frame tilt is less than 0.1°; crop only, without rotation or resampling. Alignment is the mean of robust native-pixel fits of the actual top and bottom outer frame, with 2192 / 2027 inlier samples. Minor original page curvature is retained; no perspective warping. Crop (135, 375)–(2735, 4365), 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.