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Summary

Description

The Guicowar of Baroda. The young Guicowar of Baroda sits between long cylindrical cushions, with attendants holding large ceremonial fans or fly-whisks, another seated figure holding a sheet, and a draped figure behind. The people, headgear, fan shapes, garments, carpet, vessels, cushion patterns and hatching match the scrapbook. The complete composition, printed frame, small marks and two-line caption The Guicowar of Baroda. From a Sketch by One of Our Special Artists. are retained. That generic credit is not expanded to a named artist or engraver.

From The Illustrated London News, vol. LXVII (67), no. 1896, Saturday, 11 December 1875, printed p. 572. The complete page prints the date and folio, and the separately retained issue front, printed p. 569 / canvas 649, directly confirms the issue number, volume and date. This is an additional natural-colour witness, compared with the already published monochrome File:SB-05-100-source-1.jpg. That file, its existing 200-pixel gallery and complete caption remain unchanged. The colour witness is not claimed to have more native pixels or universally greater optical sharpness than the existing file. 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 100, item 1. Album images, captions, author parameters, articles, handwriting, crossed-out words, 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 652, labelled 572 (0652). Complete published IIIF full JPEG, not an 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.
• Issue front, printed p. 569.

Thank you to Bayerische Staatsbibliothek for preserving this volume and making its colour scans freely accessible.

File and processing

PNG, 4150 × 2840 pixels, RGB; natural paper colour retained. Complete input: 3262 × 4715 pixels, 2448112 bytes, SHA-256 09d2d9cb1a3338160df43b0d3fd80c9651fbc2ff98a3c930145c8dffbbe8b521.

Lossless 90-degree clockwise transpose, then crop (160, 230)–(4490, 3250) in the upright image. One bicubic alignment correction of 1.985502 degrees clockwise, measured from the long lower printed frame rule. Final trim (90, 90)–(4240, 2930); right and bottom bounds are exclusive. No added canvas is retained. The entire composition, printed frame, caption, signatures and meaningful marks remain. Original paper or monochrome values, show-through, minor colour moiré where present, printing irregularities, local page curvature 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 engraving is public-domain historical material. The exact saved 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.