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Summary

Description

The Shadow on the Hills, Punch, or The London Charivari, volume 75, 5 October 1878, unnumbered cartoon page catalogued as [151]. The complete printed composition corresponds to HPB-SB-8-48, image item 1: turbaned figure and weapons, lion, bear-shaped shadow, rock cracks, ground hatching, printed title and SWAIN sc signature. The same engraved detail is retained without the large white/black losses in the previously examined poor copy. No unsupported expansion of the retained artist's monogram is supplied.

This source preserves the journal heading, issue date, full illustration, printed title and border. It is a matching contemporary printed witness, not proof that this physical copy or this journal issue supplied the particular album clipping. The French text pasted above the album illustration is not attributed to Punch by this match. The album itself remains unchanged.

Source

Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg / Punch (75.1878) / [p. 151]. Issue5 October 1878, catalogued issue range 145–156. Exact cartoon canvas 0155 is labelled 151 in the library's IIIF manifest; the cartoon itself has no visible folio number. The printed journal heading independently supplies 5 October 1878.

• Exact digitized cartoon page.
• Volume record and contents; DOI 10.11588/diglit.17733, URN urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-diglit-177332.
• Library IIIF manifest.
• Complete original native JPEG, 1955 × 2700 pixels, 1,304,614 bytes; SHA-256 0cce3aff8ad3a43da5e9552633feacd1e91ba8fbf1c1ee6457336ee3ef85e5df.

Thank you to Heidelberg University Library for preserving, digitizing and freely providing this volume. The full original, including the modern library/DFG footer, is retained unchanged and linked above. This crop excludes the modern outer footer and excess margins; full library credit remains here and beneath the included image.

Rights

The exact volume record and its IIIF manifest identify Public Domain Mark 1.0. The library's current reuse policy, checked 5 November 2026, states that no usage fee or deposit copy is required and requests attribution as Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg / title or shelfmark / page. The required credit is included here and below the image. Public Domain Mark is a rights-status statement, not a new Creative Commons licence. No account, paid order or additional agreement was required or accepted.

File and processing

Lossless RGB PNG, 1822 × 2467 pixels. The native 1955 × 2700 JPEG was rotated 0.4058674483293188° clockwise at unchanged scale using BICUBIC interpolation, expanded canvas 1975 × 2714. Final crop in that canvas: (77,86)–(1899,2553), right and bottom exclusive. The correction was measured from the printed title baseline. All visible historical illustration detail, heading/date, signatures, printed title and full border retained. Every crop pixel is supported by original image content; no empty rotation corners or fill occur.

Source, complete album and final crop personally compared 5 November 2026. No enlargement, sharpening, contrast or colour adjustment, retouching, colourization or reconstruction. Natural paper and physical print/scan variation retained. The original JPEG has no ICC profile; none was invented. Independent rotation/crop replay passed.