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Summary

Description

Highland Light, Cape Cod. The lighthouse, keeper’s house and smaller buildings, people, boat and equipment match the scrapbook cutting. The upper album border obscures part of its sky, and the original printed caption was cut away. The complete book composition and caption are retained here. The individual artist and engraver are not securely identified here. Samuel Adams Drake is the book’s author, not an established picture credit.

From Samuel Adams Drake, Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast (New York: Harper & Brothers, [c1875]), printed p. 306. The scanned copy has an undated title-page imprint and is catalogued [c1875]; its copyright verso explicitly reads 1875. The impression date is not separately printed. This matching book reproduction does not establish the first appearance or the physical copy from which the scrapbook cutting was taken.

Compared directly with H. P. Blavatsky’s Scrapbooks, volume 3, page 251, item 4.

Source

Colour scan from the Library of Congress, via Internet Archive, identifier nookssofnewland00drak. The shelfmark visible on the copyright verso is F9 .D75; Library of Congress record 08002681.

• Complete digitized book.
• Complete source page, printed p. 306.
• Title page; copyright verso, dated 1875.
• Library of Congress catalogue record.

Thank you to the Library of Congress and Internet Archive for preserving this book and providing free public access to its colour scan. Project Gutenberg’s transcription and illustrations also helped identify the matching composition.

File and processing

PNG, 1815 × 975 pixels, RGB. Complete retained source JPEG: 2158 × 3217 pixels, 819304 bytes, SHA-256 10356beafdf693ad6e07610a7f50ea9247c64d9735959bef3f52a1a3fbcee10f. This crop uses the library’s full-size access JPEG.

Crop from (280, 1375) to (2115, 2370), followed by one bicubic alignment rotation of 0.166096 degrees counterclockwise, and final trim from (10, 10) to (1825, 985); right and bottom bounds are exclusive. Caption alignment was measured before and after processing. The composition, printed caption, natural paper colour, marks, stains and show-through are retained. No added canvas, enlargement, colour or tonal correction, sharpening, retouching or reconstruction was applied. PNG compression is lossless; the source JPEG remains unchanged.

Rights

Historical American book illustration from a work copyrighted in 1875 and catalogued [c1875], in the US public domain by publication age, reproduced by a faithful library scan. No Creative Commons licence or Public Domain Mark is asserted for this specific repository object.