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Summary

Description

The Eastern Question—H. M. Abdul-Aziz Khan, Sultan of Turkey. A standing portrait of Abdul-Aziz Khan, Sultan of Turkey, wearing a fez, decorated uniform and sash, with a hand resting on a sword. The face, beard, headgear, two star-shaped decorations, round medal, sleeve ornaments, fingers, sword, railing, dome, minarets and hatching match the scrapbook. The full composition, frame, small printed marks and caption The Eastern Question—H. M. Abdul-Aziz Khan, Sultan of Turkey are retained. A named artist, engraver or photographic source for this exact impression is not established here.

From The Graphic, vol. XIII (13), no. 333, Saturday, 15 April 1876, printed p. 365. The complete page prints the date, journal title and folio; the separately retained issue front directly prints vol. XIII, no. 333 and the date. The same composition appears later in Harper’s Weekly, 6 May 1876, p. 373, with a shorter caption resembling the scrapbook’s caption. This establishes an earlier located printed witness, not the first publication in all editions or the immediate physical source of the scrapbook cutting. The present Graphic scan has clear facial and clothing hatching but compressed dark tones and white paper values; these are retained. A natural-colour paper witness remains desirable. 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 109, item 1. Album images, captions, author parameters, articles, handwriting, crossed-out words, notes, metadata, footnotes and prior sources remain unchanged.

Source

Internet Archive, public collection graphic-1870-1879, exact issue archive Graphic #0333v013 (1876-04-15) (BNA).cbr, member 0005.jpg, 2848 × 4176 RGB. The published archive filename carries the label BNA; ownership and digitization responsibility beyond that label are not independently established here. This file uses the original published CBR member JPEG retained in the research dossier, not the later JPEG 2000 derivative or a PDF enlargement. No camera-original claim is made.

• Public archive collection.
• Exact issue CBR containing the complete source page, member 0005.jpg (printed p. 365). The archive order is not treated as printed folio order.
• Later matching witness, Harper’s Weekly, 6 May 1876, p. 373.

Thank you to Internet Archive and the contributors preserving the Graphic issue for making the historical scans freely accessible.

File and processing

PNG, 2748 × 3740 pixels, RGB file with monochrome appearance; natural paper colour not established. Complete input: 2848 × 4176 pixels, 3071796 bytes, SHA-256 f15fea8dffd8c528df95932975b44cd631b9029faee91f1f9d5608d2be6e57dd.

crop (0, 300)–(2848, 4140) in the upright image. One bicubic alignment correction of 1.360036 degrees clockwise, measured from the long lower printed frame rule. Final trim (50, 50)–(2798, 3790); 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

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