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Summary

Description

Egypt - The Pyramids, captioned Рис. 12. Египетъ.—Пирамиды. in P. P. Gnedich, История искусств, third edition, volume I, Saint Petersburg: A. F. Marks, [1907], printed p. 11, fig. 12. Printed signatures ALEXANDRE DE BAR and PANNEMAKER are retained; no unverified first name is supplied for Pannemaker.

Later partial reprint of the illustration on HPB-SB-1-141: the pyramids, caravan, tents, palms, rocks and their engraved details match the upper part of the album cutting. The album contains additional lower foreground with walking figures absent from this 1907 reprint. This file reproduces the complete figure as printed in the book, not the complete larger album composition. The surrounding pasted articles and handwritten notes belong to the album and are not attributed to this book. The original periodical carrier and earliest publication of the album illustration remain unestablished.

Source

Saint Petersburg State Theatre Library, copy from the M. G. Savina collection, with Gnedich's presentation inscription. The Presidential Library catalogue identifies it as the holder of the physical original and credits the electronic copy to the Presidential Library. Exact catalogues and the public Internet Archive mirror checked 5 November 2026. The catalogue date is bracketed [1907], not a newly inferred first-publication date.

• Presidential Library: exact volume record and viewer.
• Saint Petersburg Theatre Library: exact volume record.
• Internet Archive mirror, ark:/13960/s22wfbhgsnm. The mirror was uploaded by qwert290 on 14 June 2025; that uploader is not asserted to be the artist, physical holder or digitizer.
• Complete original scanned page, image 00021, printed p. 11.

Thank you to the Saint Petersburg State Theatre Library, the Presidential Library and Internet Archive for preserving this volume and providing free public access to its scan and catalogue.

Rights

The underlying illustration was published no later than 1907 and is public domain in the United States by age. The published-work term has expired under 17 U.S.C. sections 304-305; restoration of foreign-work copyright would provide only the remainder of the original U.S. term under section 104A(a)(1)(B). This is a faithful scan of the printed two-dimensional illustration, without added creative authorship; see U.S. Copyright Office Compendium, section 313.4(A), Mere Copies. This is a statutory U.S. public-domain basis, not a Creative Commons licence or permission grant attributed to either library. No CC0, Public Domain Mark or worldwide public-domain claim is made. Source and printed artist/engraver credits are retained.

File and processing

Lossless RGB PNG, 1870 × 1510 pixels, retaining the natural paper colour. Source page 2734 × 3517 pixels, 2,293,955 bytes; SHA-256 2094429f417acf253ab524d7babcee9e1210d9e650171838c2fbbc7384fa2764. Original source retained unchanged. One 0.313221654° counterclockwise BICUBIC rotation on the complete canvas without expansion, measured from the long printed rule below the running header, then crop (120, 920)–(1990, 2430), right/bottom exclusive. The complete book illustration, both printed signatures and its original caption are retained; surrounding prose and blank margins are excluded. Independent pixel replay checked. No enlargement, tonal or colour adjustment, sharpening, retouching or reconstruction.