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Summary

Description

The State Capitol—Austin. The old State Capitol at Austin, with its cupola, surrounding trees and winding paths. The building, windows, cupola, vegetation, paths and hatching match the upper-right large view in the scrapbook collage. The book caption reads The State Capitol—Austin; the album cutting instead reads The Capitol at Austin. These are matching compositions with different printed captions. The other collage fragments are separate works; neither the bridge nor the narrow upper architectural fragment is attributed to this source.

Edward King, The Great South: A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland (Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, 1875), printed p.127. The title page dates the book 1875 and credits original sketches to J. Wells Champney for the volume as a whole; this does not establish the individual artist or engraver of this particular composition. Its engraved signatures, where present, are retained. The copyright verso reads 1874, Scribner & Co.; that notice is distinct from the printed 1875 publication date.

Compared directly with H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 3, page 241, item 1. This witness does not establish the first publication or identify the physical copy used for the scrapbook cutting.

Source

Original colour camera scan provided by the Library of Congress, through Internet Archive, identifier greatsouthrecord01king, ARK ark:/13960/t9087300x, catalogue call number 10064268, LCCN rc 01002442.

• Digitized book and catalogue record.
• Original camera JP2, leaf 137, printed p. 127.
• Complete colour page in the reader.
• Scandata mapping the camera leaf to the printed page, orientation and page crop.
• Original title page, dated 1875; original copyright verso, dated 1874.

Thank you to the Library of Congress and Internet Archive for preserving this book and making its original colour camera files freely available.

File and processing

PNG, 1580 × 1210 pixels, RGB. Original camera JP2: 4368 × 2912 pixels, 1346061 bytes, SHA-256 b1fa85b70e5e6f1b74d8401c5eb0fb4c1d5ff20d569117154635f7c43f640a2d.

Lossless 90-degree transpose clockwise, followed by the documented page crop (290, 359)–(2755, 4002) at native pixels. The illustration was then cropped within that page to (670, 1335)–(2290, 2585). One bicubic alignment correction of 1.060930 degrees clockwise, measured from the printed caption or retained verse baseline. Final trim (20, 20)–(1600, 1230); right and bottom bounds are exclusive. No added canvas is included. The complete composition and printed caption are retained. Natural paper colour, marks, show-through and engraved details are preserved. No enlargement, colour or tonal correction, sharpening, retouching or reconstruction was applied. PNG compression is lossless. The complete source page remains linked above.

Rights

Public-domain historical engraving published in the United States in 1875, reproduced by a faithful library scan. No Creative Commons licence or Public Domain Mark is attributed to this repository object.