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Summary

Description

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Exact engraving corresponding to H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 9, page 60, item 1. The full composition and its original printed caption are retained. The album image and text remain unchanged.

Source witness: The Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated, volume 61, no. 1 (whole no. 439), July 1875, printed p. 33, in the article The Seven Wonders of the World. The issue cover and title page confirm this numbering; the catalogue's calendar issue 7 is not the within-volume issue number. The individual drawing or engraving authorship is not established here. This exact matrix witness does not establish the illustration's first appearance or the physical copy used for the scrapbook cutting.

Source

University of Akron, Cummings Center for the History of Psychology, Ludy T. Benjamin Jr. Popular Psychology Magazine Collection, record 30421, source Ludy T. Benjamin Jr. papers. Natural-paper colour scan, original PDF 30422.pdf, 83 pages, 173714763 bytes. Printed p. 33 is one-based PDF page 30.

• Library catalogue record.
• Original complete issue PDF.

Thank you to the University of Akron and the Cummings Center for preserving this issue and freely providing the colour scan.

File and processing

PNG, 1210 × 1450 pixels, RGB, natural paper colour. Exact original JPEG stream extracted from PDF page 30: 1812 × 2896 pixels, 2083066 bytes; SHA-256 ab98e31680fe294ff746b7231645ab067ea568a020e96222f526fff53cff83f3. Complete PDF SHA-256 c5eee17e476c1a0bad03e1b95a6ebc602679e23c20d829452dc720d7dc37358c.

Native context crop (220, 730)–(1490, 2240), one bicubic deskew of 0.4925935 degrees clockwise measured from the printed caption, then final trim (30, 30)–(1240, 1480). Right and bottom bounds are exclusive. The source PDF's sRGB ICC profile is embedded unchanged. No added canvas, enlargement, colour or tonal adjustment, sharpening, retouching or reconstruction. The original PDF and JPEG stream remain unchanged. The final PNG uses lossless compression.

Rights

Historical illustration published in the United States in 1875, with copyright expired in the United States, reproduced by a faithful library scan. No Creative Commons licence or Public Domain Mark is attributed to the library object.