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Summary

Description

Time Smoking a Picture. A magazine reproduction after William Hogarth: winged Time smokes a pipe in front of a painting on an easel, with a varnish jar, broken sculpture and printed inscriptions. The figure, easel, pipe, smoke, jar, fragments, lettering, hatching and caption match the scrapbook. This witness is the June 1875 magazine reproduction, not an original eighteenth-century impression; the reproduction engraver is not securely identified here.

A reproduction in Caricature in the Hogarthian Period, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol. LI (51), no. CCCI (301), June 1875, printed p.46. The bound volume covers June to November 1875; the printed issue opening supplies June 1875 and no.301. No first-publication claim is made.

Compared directly with H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 4, page 5, item 3. The scrapbook image, text, handwriting and existing editorial notes remain a separate witness.

Source

Colour scan supplied 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. 46.
• 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 freely providing its colour scan.

File and processing

PNG, 1991 × 2451 pixels, RGB. Retained complete source JPEG: 2976 × 4821 pixels, 1793107 bytes, SHA-256 309cec9dc3960754ae560c98707844c827a4d636c436fa20cba8be4f17268f95.

Crop from (465, 405)–(2480, 2880). The printed caption is already level (about -0.045 degrees); no rotation or resampling was applied. Final trim (12, 12)–(2003, 2463); right and bottom bounds are exclusive. No added canvas is included. The complete relevant illustration, its printed frame and any caption within this crop are retained. Original 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 original source itself is JPEG. The complete source remains linked above.

Rights

Public-domain historical illustration 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.