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Summary

Description

Bayard Taylor. Same engraved bust as H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 8, page 322, item 1: the left profile, curly hair, cheek and beard contours, collar, tie, jacket hatching and small engraved signature agree. The NYPL printing has an oval and ornamental rectangular surround, and a different caption. The album cutting is headed Death of Bayard Taylor at Berlin, December 19; that is an event date, not a demonstrated issue date. The immediate printing used for the album remains unidentified. No expanded artist or engraver name is inferred from the signature.

The Daily Graphic, New York, Friday, 20 December 1878, as printed in the complete source clipping's header. No printed page number is established. NYPL's Date Created agrees with 20 December, while its content note says 25 December 1878; this discrepancy is retained, with the directly printed header used for this witness.

Source

The New York Public Library, The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection; Print Collection portrait file, Bayard Taylor, Adult portraits. Image ID 5111092, TMS ID 425365, object Portraits (Bayard Taylor).0013.

• NYPL catalogue, complete clipping and rights statement.
• Original available image.

Thank you to The New York Public Library for preserving this clipping and freely providing its image and catalogue.

File and processing

PNG, 491 × 649 pixels, natural paper colour. Original JPEG: 527 × 760 pixels, 407300 bytes, SHA-256 3d4bb6fc6364af861f42604b6fa7bbc37d16075dfa54d8a2011bbc95733d922f. Native crop (18, 98)–(509, 747), right and bottom bounds exclusive. The complete portrait, ornamental frame, signature and original name and life-date captions are retained. The separate newspaper header remains visible in the linked full clipping. The frame and caption are already horizontal; no additional rotation or resampling. No enlargement, colour or tonal adjustment, sharpening, retouching or reconstruction. This small independent printing witness is not presented as a resolution upgrade over the album. The complete source file remains unchanged.

Rights

Historical newspaper illustration printed in New York in 1878, with copyright expired in the United States, reproduced by a faithful scan. NYPL's item-level statement reports that its review did not conclusively determine the copyright status and refers users to applicable copyright law. No NYPL Public Domain Mark or Creative Commons licence is asserted here.