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Summary

Description

A Parsee at Prayer. A man in profile, wearing a tall hat and long coat, reads a book beside the sea with a low sun. The face, hat, hands, open book, coat folds, feet, shadow, rocks, boats, low sun, distant buildings and engraving hatching match the scrapbook. The complete picture frame, small printed marks and the original caption The Prince’s Visit to India: A Parsee at Prayer. Sketched by our special artist. are retained. The generic credit does not establish a named artist or engraver; no personal identity or exact coastal location is assigned. The album’s blue library stamp and handwriting are separate marks, unchanged in the album.

From The Illustrated London News, vol. LXVII (67), no. 1893, Saturday, 20 November 1875, opening page, p. 497 in the volume sequence. The physical opening-page masthead prints the issue number, volume and date. The other complete source-page headers likewise print the date and folio. The opening page’s folio 497 is identified by the volume sequence and library canvas label; a visible printed 497 is not claimed on the masthead. The first publication in all editions and the physical copy used for the scrapbook cutting are not established.

Compared directly with H. P. Blavatsky’s Scrapbooks, volume 5, page 9, item 2. Original album images, captions, notes, handwriting, metadata, transcription and previous materials remain unchanged.

Source

München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, shelfmark 2 Per. 15 f-67, digital object bsb11307645; BSB-ID 991019497679707356; URN urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb11307645-2. Complete published IIIF full JPEG, not an original camera TIFF. Library canvas 565, labelled 497 (0565).

• Complete source page in the library viewer.
• Persistent library record.
• Official IIIF manifest.
• Complete published full-size JPEG used for this crop.

Thank you to Bayerische Staatsbibliothek for preserving this volume and making the colour scans freely accessible.

File and processing

PNG, 2607 × 3152 pixels, RGB. Complete input: 3256 × 4721 pixels, 2574589 bytes, SHA-256 f548b34512906b3e3e1b96d474df707bd113c49f3211a09d392c99eace3f642d.

crop (175, 1360)–(2830, 4560) in the upright image. One bicubic alignment correction of 0.401354 degrees counterclockwise. The orientation reference is the robust bottom of the long printed picture-frame rule; the scan’s slight local paper curvature is retained. Final trim (24, 24)–(2631, 3176); right and bottom bounds are exclusive. No added canvas is retained. Complete printed picture, frame, caption or decorative border and meaningful marks remain. Original paper colour, show-through, stains, minor colour moiré and scan artefacts remain. No enlargement, tonal or colour correction, sharpening, retouching, watermark removal or reconstruction was applied. PNG compression is lossless; the input JPEG is preserved unchanged.

Rights

The retained official BSB IIIF manifest specifies No Copyright — Non-Commercial Use Only (NoC-NC 1.0). The library attribution and stated non-commercial restriction are retained. The underlying 1875 printed engraving is public-domain historical material. This statement is from the saved exact-object manifest, reread locally on 2 November 2026; a fresh live change to the library’s terms is not asserted. No CC0 or other Creative Commons licence is assigned.