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Summary

Description

The Begum of Bhopal and the Maharajah of Puttiala. A group captioned The Begum of Bhopal and the Maharajah of Puttiala. The people, headgear, garments, necklaces, sword, upright staffs and background drapery match the scrapbook. The entire group, printed frame and caption are retained. The source-page heading is Sketches at the Grand Chapter of the Star of India at Calcutta. By one of our special artists. That generic credit is not expanded to a named artist or engraver. Individual positions in the group are not assigned beyond the printed caption; the separate handwritten scrapbook note is not treated as a source identification.

Reproduced from The Illustrated London News, vol. LXVIII (68), no. 1906, Saturday, 5 February 1876, printed p. 137. The complete page prints the date and folio; the retained issue cover independently confirms the number, volume and date. The first appearance 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 78, item 1. Album images, captions, articles, handwriting, notes, metadata, footnotes and prior sources remain unchanged.

Source

K. K. Venugopal collection / Digital Library of India / Internet Archive, item dli.venugopal.530, catalogue title Illustrated London News (Jan-June) Vol-068, citation WC -13, identifier Vol-068, ARK ark:/13960/t2p647h17. The catalogue records the personal collection of K. K. Venugopal and upload by Public Resource on 8 April 2020. This is a native processed colour access-scan JP2, not an original camera file. Leaf 135 is physically verified as printed p. 137; the mapping is not inferred solely from a fixed leaf offset.

The catalogue creator field reads Milford House. This is not asserted to identify the original 1876 publisher. The physical impression date of the digitized bound copy has not been established; 1876 identifies the reproduced journal issue.

• Complete matching page in the volume viewer.
• Catalogue record.
• Complete native JP2 page used for this crop, downloaded as one observed member of the public archive; the entire 2.8 GB TAR was not downloaded.

Thank you to the K. K. Venugopal collection, Digital Library of India and Internet Archive for preserving this volume and making these scans freely accessible.

File and processing

PNG, 5590 × 4030 pixels, RGB; natural paper colour retained. Complete input: 5856 × 8816 pixels, 4284424 bytes, SHA-256 3f42e0406ca678ef8642c22e85b666d2c744923cc5ff9e2e87b2498e0be9204d.

Crop (100, 4670)–(5790, 8800) in the unchanged source image. One bicubic alignment correction of 0.586922 degrees clockwise, measured from the robust bottom of the long printed picture-frame rule. Final trim (50, 50)–(5640, 4080); right and bottom bounds are exclusive. No added canvas is retained. The complete picture, original frame or surrounding portrait hatching, printed caption and meaningful marks remain. Original paper colour, show-through, folds, stains, printed irregularities 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 access-scan input remains unchanged.

Rights

Public-domain historical engraving reproduced from the 1876 London journal in a faithful access scan. No separate Creative Commons licence or Public Domain Mark for this exact digitized object was shown in the examined catalogue, so none is assigned. No BSB reuse statement is transferred to this different scan. No modern colouring or reconstructed content is included.