File:SB-07-222-source-1.png

Summary

Description

The Ever-present Organ-grinder. A seated street musician with a barrel organ and crutch, two children, two women with parasols, a tree, flag, distant tower and birds. The figure positions, organ, crutch, tree branches, flag, parasols, foreground vegetation and hatching match H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 7, page 222, item 1. The complete rounded upper boundary, faint peripheral strokes, printed caption and lower-left J. P. Davis Sc. mark are retained. This attribution applies to this image only; the separate image at item 3 is not identified by this source.

From New York in Summer, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume LVII, no. 341, October 1878, printed p. 701 (New York: Harper & Brothers). The source page directly prints folio 701 and the article's running title. The bound volume title page prints June to November 1878; the October opening prints No. CCCXLI. The repository's generic date 1913 is not this physical volume's publication date.

The literal engraved mark is retained without expanding it into an unverified full name. Individual artist and engraver identities have not been independently established here; article authorship is not transferred to the illustration. The very first appearance and the physical source copy used for the scrapbook cutting remain unestablished.

Source

Internet Archive, identifier harpersmagazine57alde, a physical volume bearing the Burlingame Public Library stamp. Internet Archive is listed as sponsor and contributor; the physical library stamp does not identify the digital scan supplier. Original colour camera JP2, raw leaf 717.

• Complete source page, printed p. 701.
• Digitized volume and catalogue.
• Exact original camera JP2 used for this file.
• Source leaf and page metadata.
• October 1878 issue opening.

Thank you to Internet Archive for preserving this volume and making its original colour camera files freely available.

File and processing

PNG, 1640 × 1930 pixels, RGB; natural paper colour retained. Original JP2: 5616 × 3744 pixels, 1492249 bytes, SHA-256 d2d2934dd4eecc948fc46e5b6b1e2a4e1ffece7f130b7e8e26752de97bc172f3.

Lossless 90-degree clockwise transpose, then source-metadata page crop (294, 477)–(3201, 5103). Native context crop (940, 240)–(2640, 2260), one bicubic correction of 1.233323 degrees clockwise measured from 28 printed caption glyph components, then final trim (30, 60)–(1670, 1990). Right and bottom bounds are exclusive. The full composition, rounded skyline boundary, caption, engraved mark and faint peripheral hatching are retained; adjacent article prose is outside the crop. No added canvas, enlargement, colour or tonal correction, sharpening, retouching or reconstruction was applied. PNG compression is lossless; the complete input remains unchanged.

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.