File:SB-03-155-source-1.png

Summary

Description

Hope Evermore! Love Evermore! They Sing. Illustration signed Abbey for J. T. Trowbridge's The Book of Gold: A Christmas Story. A man slumps in a chair beside a writing desk and trunk, holding a letter in one hand and covering his face with the other. A hat, inkstand, small bottle and wall lamp are visible.

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol. LIV (54), no. CCCXIX (319), December 1876, printed p.67. The bound volume covers December 1876 to May 1877 and is catalogued as 1877; the actual issue opening explicitly gives December1876 and no.319. The engraver is not securely identified here.

The seated figure, letter, desk, trunk, chair, lamp and caption match. A separate image pasted over the right side of the scrapbook composition is not part of this illustration. Compared directly with H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume3, page155, item1. This witness does not establish the first-ever appearance or identify the physical copy used for the scrapbook.

Source

Colour scan provided by Brigham Young University–Idaho, David O. McKay Library, through Internet Archive, identifier harpersnew054various, ARK ark:/13960/t3kw80f8k.

• Digitized volume and catalogue record.
• Complete colour page, printed p.67.
• Actual December1876 issue opening, no.319.

Thank you to Brigham Young University–Idaho, David O. McKay Library, and Internet Archive for preserving this volume and making its colour scan freely available.

File and processing

PNG, 2466 × 1976 pixels, RGB. Retained complete source JPEG: 2903 × 4809 pixels, 1355673 bytes, SHA-256 02030d66eb4078a7103154b5053c42cf5f4e1a03a067b9bb186618047c336687.

Crop from(200, 1500)–(2690, 3500), then trim to(12, 12)–(2478, 1988); right and bottom bounds are exclusive. The caption baseline was already level (about −0.025 degrees); no rotation or resampling was applied. The full engraving, original caption and visible signature or credit are retained. No added canvas is included. Natural paper colour, marks and show-through are preserved. No enlargement, colour or tonal adjustment, sharpening, retouching or reconstruction was applied. PNG compression is lossless; the source itself is JPEG. The complete page remains linked above.

Rights

Public-domain historical illustration published in the United States in1876, reproduced by a faithful library scan. The issue opening carries the1876 copyright notice. No Creative Commons licence or Public Domain Mark is attributed to this repository object.