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Summary

Description

The Wissahickon—The Hermit’s Pool. Historical engraving showing a wooded pool, waterfall and boulders, from Philadelphia and Its Environs, and the Railroad Scenery of Pennsylvania, with 225 illustrations (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., [1875]), printed p. 85. The title page is undated in print; its pencilled date, the Library of Congress copyright stamp and the printed copyright verso identify 1875. The artist and engraver have not been securely identified here; the engraved signatures are preserved.

The full composition, engraving details and caption match H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 3, page 48, item 1. This witness does not establish the first-ever appearance of the drawing or identify the physical copy used for the scrapbook.

Source

Colour scan provided by the Library of Congress, digitized book identifier philadelphiaitse00jb. Shelfmark visible on the copyright verso: F158.5 .P53.

• Complete LOC PDF, printed p.85, PDF page115. The retained PDF has 212 pages, 70074608 bytes, SHA-256 66bc0999ca3f961a15d1c39ed75a5eef9454a28859c11d19b8656882c922f095.
• Title page, PDF page29; printed copyright1875 is PDF page30.

Thank you to the Library of Congress for preserving this book and making its colour scan freely available.

File and processing

PNG, 1976 × 2936 pixels, RGB. The retained complete colour JPEG page is 4413 × 6667 pixels, 3917822 bytes, SHA-256 912de7ee9916beded7b3f972df5a820b500b2fa3ff66d927ce7b336354337259.

The complete engraving and caption were cropped from page coordinates(250, 3300)–(2250, 6260), checked for alignment (already level within0.01degrees; no rotation or resampling applied), then trimmed to(12, 12)–(1988, 2948). Right and bottom bounds are exclusive. No added canvas is included. The page header and adjacent prose remain available in the complete source PDF. Natural paper colour, marks and show-through are retained. No enlargement, colour or tonal correction, sharpening, retouching or reconstruction was applied.

Rights

Public-domain historical engraving published in the United States in1875, reproduced by a faithful library scan. The printed copyright page is linked above. No Creative Commons licence or Public Domain Mark is attributed to the Library of Congress for this object.