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Summary

Description

Tale of King Omar bin al-Nu'uman and his Sons, illustration by Albert Letchford, matching H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 13, page 45, item 1. The raised sword, two seated women, camel caravan, foreground vessel, rocks and artist's signature correspond to the album composition.

Source

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, translated by Richard F. Burton, edited by Leonard C. Smithers, illustrated by Albert Letchford. London: H. S. Nichols Ltd., 1897, vol. II, plate 12. The physical title page reads MDCCCXCVII and Leonard C. Smithers. The separate caption leaf gives No. 12 and the tale title; that caption is not printed beneath the illustration itself. The plate occurs near printed p. 30, but does not bear that folio.

• Internet Archive, exact image leaf n51.
• Title page; separate plate-caption leaf.

This is a later book witness dated 1897, not proof of the date of the album cutting or of an addition by Blavatsky. The precise physical carrier of the cutting remains unestablished. The album's existing circa-1901 note is preserved; this Sources addition records the independently verified 1897 witness without changing album metadata.

Scan contributed by University of California Libraries / SRLF UCLA, via Internet Archive. Thank you to the contributing library and Internet Archive for making the complete volume freely available.

Rights

The historical 1897 illustration is in the public domain. The current Internet Archive metadata records NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT (verified 4 November 2026). No specific Creative Commons licence or Public Domain Mark is asserted for this digitization. Changes: fine deskew and cropping.

File and processing

Lossless RGB PNG, 1561 × 2042 pixels. Input 2280 × 3837; original SHA-256 2be0c122c0750c3abdb46b40ee1589d01080ba4a24ae71afafe7573f6e2591eb. One fine 0.418692° clockwise rotation, BICUBIC, on the full source canvas without expansion; crop (314, 674)–(1875, 2716), right/bottom exclusive. Original paper colour, stains, complete composition and Letchford signature remain. Support mask minimum 255; no exterior fill wedges. No enlargement, colourization, tonal adjustment, sharpening, retouching or reconstruction. Original input retained unchanged; final decoded pixels independently reproduced from the documented transform.