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Summary

Description

2. Asia — one of four separate engravings under the shared title Hunting Trophies of the Four Continents in Harper's Weekly, vol. XX, no. 1018, 1 July 1876, printed p. 537. Printed marks J. Smit and Pearson Sc. are retained as they appear; Sc. denotes the engraver's role. No unverified expansion of either name is supplied.

Matches item 2, Asia, on H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 11, page 413. The pale central skulls against dark spotted skins, inward-curving horns, lower cat heads, folded skins and individual engraved strokes match. The subjects are arranged hunting trophies: preserved heads, horns, skulls and skins, rather than a group of living animals. This file retains the complete individual composition, signature/engraver marks and numbered original caption. It does not include the other three compositions or the adjoining article. The four engravings are separate matrices and follow the album order Europe, Asia, Africa, America. The particular physical copy used for the album cutting and earliest publication beyond this exact witness remain unestablished.

Source

Internet Archive, Serials in Microfilm, exact item sim_harpers-weekly_1876-07-01_20_1018, ark:/13960/s24c2m5q5bt. Digitized from microfilm IA1642822-05, box IA1642822, scanning centre Cebu, catalogue scan resolution 400ppi. The current exact archive record was checked 5 November 2026 and identifies the issue as volume 20/no. 1018/1 July 1876. The actual complete source page prints 1 July 1876 and 537. The catalogue's Publisher field Out-of-copyright is an archive classification, not a historical publisher's name.

• Exact issue record.
• Complete printed source page 537, processed JP2 leaf 0012, the thirteenth reader image.
• Full-size archive BookReader JPEG used for this crop, 4140 × 5836 pixels. This is a processed access representation, not an original camera file.

Thank you to Internet Archive for preserving the periodical and freely supplying the full-size scan and catalogue. This is a grayscale microfilm representation, retaining original scan grain/softness; it is not natural paper colour and has not been colourized. No modern dealer photograph is used.

Rights

Historical engraving published in the United States in 1876, public domain there by age. The current exact Internet Archive record classifies the issue as Out-of-copyright. No Creative Commons licence, CC0 or institutional Public Domain Mark is invented for this faithful microfilm scan. Source and digitizer credit retained; no creative restoration, commercial seller's photograph, access restriction or paid content is used.

File and processing

Lossless 8-bit grayscale PNG, 1590 × 2120 pixels. Supplied full-size processed-page JPEG: 4140 × 5836 pixels, 2143289 bytes, SHA-256 964f2c0c4307b2518a66e40f46724941b3d6b301ec829c5938a018e293578ede. The archive supplied these pixels at reader scale 1; the earlier scale 2 JPEG was 2070 × 2918 and was not enlarged to create this file.

Alignment measured on the lower printed image boundary, using 291 inlier edge samples, slope -0.098072978°. The boundary is already level within 0.1°; no rotation or resampling was applied. Exact crop (2110, 555)–(3700, 2675), right/bottom exclusive. Complete image, all original printed marks and numbered caption retained. Exact independent pixel replay and source-supported-area minimum 255 checked. No enlargement, tonal/colour change, sharpening, retouching, reconstruction or generative processing.