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Summary

Description

Illustration on the page headed The Guitar, from Confessions of a Medium, printed p. 95, London: Griffith & Farran; New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., [1882] (date as catalogued by Internet Archive).

Exact match to the illustration within An Imitation of Spiritual Phenomena on H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 13, page 109, inlay 109.1, item 1. The seated central man, guitar above his face, ring round his neck, upright pencil, two women holding hands, partial fourth profile at left, bell, clothing, wall picture, furniture and individual engraved strokes match. This is one complete framed illustration. The running page heading is used for identification; it is not claimed to be a separate printed picture caption. The author, artist, engraver and identities of the depicted people are not independently established here.

The scrapbook preserves a Psyche journal cutting, printed p. 44, whose article explicitly names Confessions of a Medium (Griffith and Farran). This file is the independently matching book impression; it does not replace the journal cutting or its metadata and does not establish the physical copy used for the scrapbook. No claim of first publication is made. The surrounding book prose and running heading are excluded from this image crop; the complete source page remains available below.

Source

University of California Libraries, call number nrlf_ucb:GLAD-117490133, hosted by Internet Archive, identifier confessionsofmed00londrich. The current catalogue gives [1882], the two publishers above, and Canon 5D camera. Its copyright-evidence note reports a visible notice and stated date 1882. No unverified author attribution is transferred from secondary search results.

• Complete source page, printed p. 95.
• Digitized book and current catalogue.
• Full unchanged JPEG representation used for this crop.
• Matching complete IA-derived book scan and rights record.

Thank you to University of California Libraries and Internet Archive for preserving this book and freely providing its scan.

Rights

Public-domain historical work, published in 1882. The current Wikimedia Commons record for this exact IA-derived book scan marks it PD-US-expired; that record and the source catalogue were checked 5 November 2026 (Moscow). No CC0, Creative Commons licence or Public Domain Mark is attributed to the source object here.

File and processing

Lossless RGB PNG, 1775 × 1400 pixels. Source JPEG representation of processed JP2 leaf 0117: 1907 × 3352 pixels, 853693 bytes, SHA-256 578f865b4d2624fac7ccc78a7457b36210a7f3896bb9d4f94502c9f15fc823f4. This JPEG is not the original camera JP2 container.

One 0.462272347-degree clockwise bicubic alignment correction on the full native canvas without expansion. Robust fits to 1620 samples of each outer printed frame edge measured -0.432956035 and -0.491588659 degrees; their mean was used. The original slight frame irregularity is retained. Final native-coordinate crop (35, 1455)–(1810, 2855), right and bottom exclusive. The full composition and complete printed frame are retained. All output pixels lie within the source-supported area, with no added canvas. Natural paper colour, stains, fading and original marks remain. No enlargement, colour or tonal correction, sharpening, retouching, reconstruction or generative processing. Final pixels were independently reproduced from the unchanged JPEG.