File:SB-07-291-source-2.png

Summary

Description

Adonais: couple under a tree (lower vignette), matching H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 7, page 291, item 3. The seated pair and their hats, tree trunk and branches, circular foliage scene, foreground grass and apples and fine strokes match. This is a descriptive label for this detail, not a separately printed historical title. The poem is printed as ADONAIS; no separate artist or engraver credit is independently established here. The exact engraved design is confirmed; the physical copy used for the album cutting is not identified.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol. LVII, no. 341, October 1878, p. 652 (New York: Harper & Brothers), one of five scrapbook image details taken from the two illustrated poem pages, pp. 652–653. The decorative branches and borders connect across parts of the source page. This crop corresponds to one existing album image, retaining its scene or panel and adjacent original ornament where present; it is not presented as the entire two-page design. The unchanged complete pages remain available at the links below. No connecting ornament has been reconstructed or replaced with artificial paper.

The physical issue opening prints No. CCCXLI, October 1878 and Vol. LVII; the bound title page prints June to November 1878. The exact leaf/page mapping identifies original camera exposure 668 as p. 652. This impression's date does not establish when the scrapbook leaf was assembled.

Source

Internet Archive, identifier harpersmagazine57alde, ark:/13960/t8w97kr8k. Original colour camera exposure 668. The 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.
• Full illustrated poem spread.
• Digitized volume and current catalogue.
• Exact unchanged original camera JP2.
• 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, 2280 × 1920 pixels, preserving the natural paper colour and original faint lines. Original camera JP2: 5616 × 3744 pixels, 1147213 bytes, SHA-256 71b6a798daa4a40b0fa1a3799da07e41080c0717deb3c37d84772349f95a7f0a.

Lossless 90-degree counterclockwise transpose, then one 0.695251281-degree counterclockwise bicubic alignment correction on the full native 3744 × 5616 canvas without expansion. Alignment was measured from 42 inlier glyph bottoms of the first full printed poem line, excluding descenders and neighboring text/artwork. Final crop (850, 2890)–(3130, 4810), right and bottom exclusive. All output pixels lie within the original image-supported area. This is an unaltered crop detail of an integrated page design; connecting decoration can continue outside its boundary. No added canvas, enlargement, colour or tonal correction, sharpening, retouching or reconstruction. Final pixels were independently reproduced from the unchanged original JP2.