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BCW volume 2: reviewed material from B. de Zirkoff’s compiler notes
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|description=An English artist and an early member of the Theosophical Society. He accompanied H. P. Blavatsky and H. S. Olcott to India in 1879. His work included the design of the cover and engraving of the heading of ''The Theosophist'', as well as a portrait of Blavatsky. He left the Society in 1880. | |description=An English artist and an early member of the Theosophical Society. He accompanied H. P. Blavatsky and H. S. Olcott to India in 1879. His work included the design of the cover and engraving of the heading of ''The Theosophist'', as well as a portrait of Blavatsky. He left the Society in 1880. | ||
The cover drawing was ready on 31 July 1879, and engraving began on 2 September. In September 1880 he publicly disputed with [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]; her annotations to his reply survive in her scrapbook. {{ctd-source|1=[[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - The Founding of The Theosophist|BCW 2:83-84]], [[Zirkoff B. - H.P. Blavatsky and Edward Wimbridge|BCW 2:479-481]]}} | |||
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Zirkoff adds that Wimbridge etched a portrait of H.P.B. in copper, and that after Rosa Bates left the Society following a dispute, he departed with her; he later prospered in a furniture business in India and died at Bombay, May 13, 1898. {{ctd-source|BCW|1|533}}. | Zirkoff adds that Wimbridge etched a portrait of H.P.B. in copper, and that after Rosa Bates left the Society following a dispute, he departed with her; he later prospered in a furniture business in India and died at Bombay, May 13, 1898. {{ctd-source|BCW|1|533}}. | ||
|mentioned in=[[Zirkoff B. - The Founding of The Theosophist|The Founding of “The Theosophist”]] ([[Zirkoff B. - The Founding of The Theosophist|BCW 2:83-84]]); [[Zirkoff B. - H.P. Blavatsky and Edward Wimbridge|H.P. Blavatsky and Edward Wimbridge]] ([[Zirkoff B. - H.P. Blavatsky and Edward Wimbridge|BCW 2:479-481]]) | |||
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