File:SB-07-220-source-2.png

Summary

Description

The Axenstrasse, matching H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 7, page 220, item 3. The two rock openings, distant mountains and sailboat, covered carriage, walking figures, parapet, long poles, foreground basket and engraved strokes match. The complete engraved composition and original printed caption are retained. The rectangular crop also preserves the original printed article text occupying the stepped artwork's recess; this text has not been erased or replaced with artificial paper. The exact engraved design is confirmed; the physical copy used for the album cutting and the artist and engraver are not independently established here.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol. LVII, no. 341, October 1878, p. 662 (New York: Harper & Brothers). The issue opening prints No. CCCXLI, October 1878 and Vol. LVII; the bound title page prints June to November 1878. The original leaf mapping identifies camera exposure 678 as page 662. The date of this impression does not establish when the scrapbook leaf was assembled.

Source

Internet Archive, identifier harpersmagazine57alde, ark:/13960/t8w97kr8k. Original colour camera exposure 678. The physical volume bears the Burlingame Public Library stamp; the current record lists Internet Archive as contributor and burlingamepubliclibrary as donor. The catalogue's generic date 1913 is not the date of this physical volume and is not used here.

• Complete source page.
• Digitized volume and current catalogue.
• Exact original camera JP2 used here.
• Leaf and page mapping.

Thank you to Internet Archive for preserving this volume and freely sharing its original colour camera files, and to Burlingame Public Library for the source copy.

Rights

Public-domain historical illustration published in the United States in 1878, reproduced by a faithful scan. No Creative Commons licence or Public Domain Mark is attributed to this repository object. The exact current repository record and freely available original member were checked 4 November 2026.

File and processing

Lossless RGB PNG, 2350 × 2430 pixels, preserving the natural paper colour. Original camera JP2: 5616 × 3744 pixels, 1523398 bytes, SHA-256 fadead3893031c8c8f74b225b435975455efc6e0c4007604f9996223e357d11b.

Lossless 90-degree counterclockwise transpose, then one 0.277981180-degree clockwise bicubic correction on the full native 3744 × 5616 canvas without expansion, measured from 12 printed caption glyph baselines. Final crop (770, 2410)–(3120, 4840), right and bottom exclusive. Complete composition and caption remain within the original image-supported area. No added canvas, enlargement, colour or tonal correction, sharpening, retouching or reconstruction. Final pixels were independently reproduced from the unchanged original JP2.