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Summary

Description

Nana Sahib (printed caption). A portrait bearing the historical printed caption Nana Sahib. The feathered and patterned headgear, profile, beard, decorated clothing, hands, weapons, palms, minarets, masonry and hatching match the scrapbook. The complete composition, small printed monogram or marks, and caption are retained. The matching printed image and caption do not independently verify the historical identity of the model. No alternative personal identification is asserted here. The scrapbook’s handwritten comment is separate and remains unchanged.

From The Illustrated London News, vol. 31, 26 September 1857, p. 328. The complete page directly prints the journal title, date and folio. The corresponding issue is recorded separately as no. 880 in the retained primary-issue research record. The accompanying periodical notice says: “The accompanying Portrait is from a sketch of Nana Sahib recently received from India by Major O. Gandini.” This historical source statement is retained without assigning Gandini the role of artist or certifying the model’s identity.

The catalogue creator field reads Milford House; it is not asserted to identify the original 1857 publisher. The physical impression date of the digitized bound copy is unestablished: 1857 identifies the reproduced journal issue. The title Nana Sahib is presented as a printed historical caption, with the model’s historical identity left unresolved. 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 7, page 60, item 1. Album images, captions, articles, handwriting, author parameters, notes, metadata, footnotes and prior sources remain unchanged.

Source

K. K. Venugopal collection / Digital Library of India / Internet Archive, identifier dli.venugopal.521, catalogue title Illustrated London News (July-Dec) Vol-031, citation WC -11, identifier Vol-031, ARK ark:/13960/t2z40gn6m. Native processed colour access-scan JP2, leaf 328, 2928 × 4408 pixels; the visible date and folio were physically checked. The existing DLI watermark remains over the picture. No original camera file is claimed.

• Complete matching colour page in the volume viewer.
• Catalogue record.
• Complete native processed JP2 used for this crop.
• Independently recorded matching issue, no. 880.

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

File and processing

PNG, 1484 × 1792 pixels, RGB; source paper colour and existing watermark retained. Complete input: 2928 × 4408 pixels, 1412292 bytes, SHA-256 3864c35e283e5277e808544cdb8ff86c18b78b74b273352c58b7a31d0e065e9e.

Illustration crop (715, 202)–(2235, 2030) in the upright page. No fine resampling: the engraved horizontal hatch lines within the portrait are already level. Final trim (18, 18)–(1502, 1810); right and bottom bounds are exclusive. No added canvas is retained. The full composition, original frame or surrounding hatching, printed caption, signatures and meaningful marks remain. Original paper or grayscale values, show-through, marks, watermark where present, printing 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 original access file remains unchanged.

Rights

Public-domain historical engraving reproduced from the 1857 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. The existing DLI watermark has not been removed.