File:SB-04-082-source-1.png

Summary

Description

The Queen of Society. A girl plays at being a society lady, holding a fan and wearing a trailing dress, while a small dog pulls the train beside a table, flower vase and curtains. The girl, fan, dress, dog, vase, curtains, dropped flowers, hatching and caption match the scrapbook illustration. The illustration credit Porte Crayon is printed at the opening of the article on page 19; the engraver is not securely identified here.

Boys and Girls, illustrated by Porte Crayon, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol. LIV (54), no. CCCXIX (319), December 1876, printed p.21. The bound volume covers December 1876 to May 1877 and is catalogued 1877; the actual printed issue is December 1876.

Compared directly with H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 4, page 82, item 3. This source is confirmed only for this composition and The Queen of Society / The Miner’s Picciola on the same scrapbook page. The three separate heads on that scrapbook page are not attributed to this article. No first-publication or physical-cutting-source claim is made.

Source

Original colour camera scan supplied by Brigham Young University–Idaho, David O. McKay Library, through Internet Archive, identifier harpersnew054various, ARK ark:/13960/t3kw80f8k.

• Digitized volume and catalogue record.
• Complete colour source page in the reader.
• Original camera JP2 used for this crop.
• Scandata mapping the camera leaf, printed page, orientation and page crop.
• Article opening, printed p.19, with the credit Illustrated by Porte Crayon.
• Actual issue opening, no.319, December 1876.

Thank you to Brigham Young University–Idaho, David O. McKay Library, and Internet Archive for preserving this volume and freely providing its original colour camera files.

File and processing

PNG, 1670 × 1745 pixels, RGB. Original JP2: 5616 × 3744 pixels, 1117817 bytes, SHA-256 ee59d9cc2ef8665938958b51f5b99612fd829e5363fc00dd7cdf8388a292ab2c.

Lossless 90-degree transpose clockwise, followed by the page crop (429, 566)–(3363, 5436) at native pixels. Illustration crop within that upright page: (190, 2600)–(1900, 4385). One bicubic alignment correction of 0.882292 degrees clockwise, measured from the printed caption baseline. Final trim (20, 20)–(1690, 1765); right and bottom bounds are exclusive. No added canvas is included. The complete relevant composition and printed caption are retained. Original paper colour, marks, show-through and engraved lines remain unchanged. No enlargement, colour or tonal correction, sharpening, retouching or reconstruction was applied. PNG compression is lossless. The complete source remains linked above.

Rights

Public-domain historical illustration published in the United States in 1876, reproduced by a faithful library scan. No Creative Commons licence or Public Domain Mark is attributed to this repository object.