File:SB-07-185-source-1.png

Summary

Description

A Perfect Cow. The head, neck and shoulder of a cow, within a circular engraved frame. The horns, face, ear, outline, hatching and facsimile Beckwith signature match H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 7, page 185, item 1. The full circular frame, faint strokes and printed caption are retained. The scrapbook's separate handwriting and mounting discolouration are not part of this source witness.

From A New England Dairy and Stock Farm, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume LVII, no. 341, October 1878, p. 641 (New York: Harper & Brothers). This is the issue and article opening. The page prints No. CCCXLI, October 1878 and Vol. LVII; folio 641 is established by the source leaf/page sequence and is not visibly printed on this layout. The physical bound title page prints June to November 1878. The repository's generic date 1913 is not this physical volume's publication date.

The literal signature Beckwith is retained without expanding it into an unverified full name. Individual artist and engraver identities have not been independently established here; article authorship is not transferred to the illustration. The first appearance and the physical source copy used for the scrapbook cutting remain unestablished.

Source

Internet Archive, identifier harpersmagazine57alde, a physical volume bearing the Burlingame Public Library stamp. The repository lists Internet Archive as sponsor and contributor; the physical library stamp does not identify the digital scan supplier. Original colour camera JP2, raw leaf 655, corresponding to p. 641 in the source metadata.

• Complete October issue opening and source page.
• Digitized volume and catalogue.
• Exact original camera JP2 used for this file.
• Source leaf and page metadata.

Thank you to Internet Archive for preserving this volume and making the original colour camera files freely available.

File and processing

PNG, 1600 × 1670 pixels, RGB; natural paper colour retained. Original JP2: 5616 × 3744 pixels, 1191850 bytes, SHA-256 bbf0c7438a393178f6bb66504d0205955d289e115b3da80ffaaa2d6d654241ec.

Lossless 90-degree clockwise transpose, then source-metadata page crop (294, 477)–(3201, 5103). Native context crop (190, 1000)–(1850, 2730), one bicubic alignment correction of 1.165684 degrees clockwise measured from 12 printed caption glyph components, then final trim (30, 30)–(1630, 1700). Right and bottom bounds are exclusive. The full illustration, frame, signature and caption are retained; adjacent article text is outside the crop. No added canvas, enlargement, colour or tonal correction, sharpening, retouching or reconstruction was applied. PNG compression is lossless; the complete source remains unchanged.

Rights

Public-domain historical illustration published in the United States in 1878, reproduced by a faithful scan. No Creative Commons licence or Public Domain Mark is attributed to this repository object.