File:SB-07-171-source-1.png

Summary

Description

The Spirit Island. A wooded island on Lake Tanganyika, with three boats, reeds, grasses and reflected vegetation in the foreground. The island outline, boat positions, masts, foreground canoe, reeds, birds and hatching match the scrapbook image captioned The Spirit Land, Lake Tanganika. The book reproduces the same composition with a different printed caption, THE SPIRIT ISLAND; that caption is retained in this file.

Henry M. Stanley, Through the Dark Continent, volume II (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1878), printed p.57. The exact title page prints the author, volume, publisher, place and 1878. Individual artist and engraver roles have not been established for this illustration; the book author's name is not assigned as an image credit.

The matching journal witness appears as The Spirit Land, Lake Tanganika in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol. LVII, no. 341, October 1878, p. 678, in Through the Dark Continent. This file uses the colour book witness and its own caption. The author of the book is not automatically the author of the journal article. Neither witness establishes the very first publication or the physical source copy used for the scrapbook cutting.

Compared directly with H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 7, page 171, item 3. Album images, text, titles, notes, metadata, footnotes and previous sources remain unchanged.

Source

Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, through Internet Archive, identifier throughdarkconti1878stan2, ARK ark:/13960/t7rn46m9h, catalogue call number DEG8027. Original colour camera JP2, raw leaf 79. The repository records a Canon EOS 5D Mark II camera. This is the original camera image, not an enlarged PDF rendering.

• Complete source page, printed p. 57.
• Digitized volume and catalogue record.
• Original camera JP2 used for this file.
• Exact title page, volume II, dated 1878.
• Matching journal witness, with the scrapbook's caption, October 1878, p. 678.

Thank you to the Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, and Internet Archive for preserving this volume and freely providing its original colour camera files.

File and processing

PNG, 2110 × 1520 pixels, RGB; natural paper colour retained. Original JP2: 5616 × 3744 pixels, 924816 bytes, SHA-256 56cdfdbec029976911f61ca344aafc7c27cd98efafb3854d390f63e26279a7a1.

Lossless 90-degree clockwise transpose to a 3744 × 5616 upright image. Native context crop (150, 2020)–(2450, 3690), followed by one bicubic correction of 0.226795 degrees counterclockwise, measured from 16 printed caption glyph components. Final trim (70, 105)–(2180, 1625); right and bottom bounds are exclusive. Complete engraved composition, faint upper sky hatching and printed caption are retained. No added canvas is included. No enlargement, colour or tonal correction, sharpening, retouching or reconstruction was applied. PNG compression is lossless; the original file remains unchanged.

Rights

Historical illustration published in 1878, with copyright expired in the United States, reproduced by a faithful library scan. No Creative Commons licence or Public Domain Mark is attributed to this repository object.