File:SB-03-245-source-1.png

Summary

Description

Old Manse. A house seen through trees, with children on the lawn, shrubs and a fence. The house, tree trunks and branches, children, arched outline, hatching and printed caption match the scrapbook. The album handwriting associating the view with Hawthorne is a separate annotation. The accompanying article is credited to Miss H. E. Hudson; that is not an established picture credit. The artist and engraver of this illustration are not securely identified here.

From Concord Books, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol. LI (51), no. CCCI (301), June 1875, printed p.24. The printed issue opening supplies the issue number and date.

Compared directly with H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 3, page 245, item 1. This witness does not establish the first publication or identify the physical copy used for the scrapbook cutting.

Source

Colour scan provided by Brigham Young University–Idaho, David O. McKay Library, through Internet Archive, identifier harpersnew51various, ARK ark:/13960/t4dn67r1p.

• Digitized volume and catalogue record.
• Complete colour page, printed p. 24.
• Actual June 1875 issue opening, no. 301.

Thank you to Brigham Young University–Idaho, David O. McKay Library, and Internet Archive for preserving this volume and making its colour scan freely available.

File and processing

PNG, 1806 × 1896 pixels, RGB. Retained complete source JPEG: 2945 × 4882 pixels, 1985626 bytes, SHA-256 1815afa3d09c5382d3ff8f07aa004eb067236a7c1433ab5470aacb5b0412a586.

Crop from (245, 410)–(2075, 2330). The straight printed page heading is already level (about 0.028 degrees); no rotation or resampling was applied. Final trim (12, 12)–(1818, 1908); 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.