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Summary

Description

A Rajah Going in State to a Reception by the Prince of Wales at Bombay. A rajah rides in an open carriage with attendants, surrounded by mounted and walking figures. The faces, headgear, carriage body, large wheel and spokes, horses, ceremonial staffs, buildings and vegetation match the scrapbook. The complete composition, frame, small marks and two-line caption A Rajah Going in State to a Reception by the Prince of Wales at Bombay. From a Sketch by One of Our Special Artists. are retained. The source’s full printed caption includes words crossed out in the scrapbook caption; the scrapbook’s wording and marks remain unchanged. The generic artist credit is not expanded to a name.

From The Illustrated London News, vol. LXVII (67), no. 1896, Saturday, 11 December 1875, printed p. 573. 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-05-106-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 106, 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 653, labelled 573 (0653). 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, 3950 × 2830 pixels, RGB; natural paper colour retained. Complete input: 3280 × 4750 pixels, 2484849 bytes, SHA-256 11d9c096c06c15bbf2c93c3efcc7ba3b24e0717e241fba7d334d56b42fb30078.

Lossless 90-degree clockwise transpose, then crop (340, 140)–(4350, 3030) in the upright image. One bicubic alignment correction of 0.497228 degrees counterclockwise, measured from the long lower printed frame rule. Final trim (30, 30)–(3980, 2860); 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.