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Summary

Description

A Visit to the Dentist — engraving in Harper's Weekly, vol. XXII, no. 1127, Supplement, 3 August 1878, printed p. 621. The printed caption credits “From the Picture by G. A. Storey, A.R.A.” This is the painting credit; the small engraved signature is retained without an unverified expansion or a separate engraver attribution.

The right-hand standing man matches the cutting at H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 7, page 297: profile, queue hairstyle, hands held at the chest, lace-edged hat behind the elbow, coat folds/buttons, breeches, stockings and buckled shoes, and the background doorway. The album contains a narrow crop; this file shows the complete scene with both women and the original caption. It is not a portrait identification or a claim that the man is Scrooge. This witness establishes the matching printed matrix; the exact physical copy used for the cutting and the earliest-ever publication are not established.

Source

Pennsylvania State University copy, digitized by Google and preserved by the Internet Archive, item bub_gb_-L44AQAAMAAJ_2, ark:/13960/t6xw96212; Google Books identifier -L44AQAAMAAJ. The current Google catalogue, checked 5 November 2026, identifies Harper's Weekly, volume 22, 1878, the Pennsylvania State University original, and digitization on 12 April 2013. The Internet Archive's generic series Publication-date 1857 field is not used as the date of this engraving: the actual source page prints 3 August 1878 and 621. The original issue cover independently prints vol. XXII / no.1127 / 3August1878.

• Exact Internet Archive record and complete bound volume.
• Google Books, printed p. 621.
• Processed page JP2 archive, member bub_gb_-L44AQAAMAAJ_jp2/bub_gb_-L44AQAAMAAJ_0098.jp2.
• Complete PDF, physical p. 621 at PDF page 99.

Thank you to Pennsylvania State University, Google and Internet Archive for preserving the original and freely providing the scan. The digital representation is essentially monochrome; it is not a natural-paper-colour upgrade and has not been colourized. The Google watermark is retained.

Rights

The underlying engraving was published in the United States in 1878 and is public domain there by age. The Internet Archive record currently displays Public Domain Mark 1.0; this is reported as archive metadata, not asserted as an independent institutional licence issued by Pennsylvania State University or Google. No CC0 or Creative Commons licence is invented for this digital representation. This is a faithful processed scan of the old printed page, not a modern creative photograph or restoration. The current Google Books terms preserve uses permitted by the United States Copyright Act and require watermarks/labels to remain; the printed Google watermark is included without removal. No paid content, access restriction or commercial seller's photograph is used.

File and processing

Lossless RGB PNG, 1615 × 2320 pixels, from the supplied processed JP2 page 1695 × 2500 pixels, 311593 bytes, SHA-256 0b27436da96b70df9b84d8eb7e191bc8f11c29c0d152ea701a4de7f29148a9c5. These are the archive's processed access pixels, not a camera original. The complete PDF's two-layer page also uses a 1695 × 2500 foreground; no larger independent detail is claimed from upscaling a render.

The ruled upper image edge was measured using 155 inlier samples: slope -0.218504806 degrees. One 0.218504806° clockwise BICUBIC rotation on the full-size source, without canvas expansion, followed by crop (65,165)–(1680,2485), right/bottom exclusive. All three figures, furniture, background, engraved signature, original caption and the full lower-right Digitized by Google mark remain. Source-support mask minimum 255 and exact independent pixel replay checked. No enlargement, tonal/colour changes, sharpening, retouching, reconstruction or generative processing.