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Summary

Description

Illuminations at Benares in Honour of the Prince of Wales. A night view captioned Illuminations at Benares in Honour of the Prince of Wales. From a Sketch by One of Our Special Artists. The illuminated towers, buildings, steps, river reflections, small craft and covered boat match the scrapbook and the smaller monochrome source already on the page. The complete composition, frame and two-line printed caption are retained. The generic credit is not expanded to a named artist. This natural-colour witness includes the full caption and substantially more native pixels than the existing 1024 × 702 file; no universal optical superiority is asserted.

Reproduced from The Illustrated London News, vol. LXVIII (68), no. 1906, Saturday, 5 February 1876, printed p. 140. 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 80, 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 138 is physically verified as printed p. 140; 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, 4100 × 2977 pixels, RGB; natural paper colour retained. Complete input: 5856 × 8816 pixels, 4445550 bytes, SHA-256 d900abbee1ac4ceaad528ee4b80bed1610f15213eeffebbc99b4d1fbd66b148b.

Crop (70, 370)–(5830, 4580) in the unchanged source image. One bicubic alignment correction of 0.138242 degrees clockwise, measured from the robust bottom of the long printed picture-frame rule. Final trim (50, 50)–(5710, 4160); 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.

Display copy

This reduced display copy preserves the complete aligned crop. The full-size aligned PNG, 5660 × 4110 pixels, is separately retained as File:SB-05-080-source-2.png, with a direct full-size download. Its SHA-256 is f186da03133a21ecb38cedbe53e178b57f9da51bf573b2f4e11c970d264e0f77.

The geometry above describes the full aligned crop. One additional aspect-preserving Lanczos reduction to 4100 × 2977 pixels was applied to that PNG for display. The wiki has a confirmed thumbnail limit of 12.5 MP, observed on another image in this publication task; the full crop exceeds it. This reduced copy is below that limit. No additional cropping, rotation, colour or tonal correction, sharpening, retouching or reconstruction was applied. The original aligned PNG and source JP2 remain 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.