File:SB-07-218-source-1.png

Summary

Description

Menhaden-Fishing off Montauk Point. A fishing steamer and a small boat with fishermen, surrounded by waves and birds, with a lighthouse and sailing craft behind. The vessel, mast and rigging, men, boats, waves, birds and lighthouse match the scrapbook cutting.

From Around the Peconics, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume LVII, no. 341, October 1878, p. 722 in the volume sequence (New York: Harper & Brothers). The illustration page has no visible folio; the exact source scandata maps raw leaf 738 to page 722. The bound volume's title page prints June to November 1878; its October issue opening prints No. CCCXLI. The repository's generic metadata date 1913 is not the publication date of this physical volume.

Compared directly with H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 7, page 218, item 1. Individual artist and engraver roles have not been securely established here; article authorship is not transferred to the illustration. Small engraved marks and signatures where present are retained. This is a matching published witness, not proof of the first appearance or the physical copy used for the scrapbook cutting.

Source

Internet Archive, identifier harpersmagazine57alde, physical copy bearing the Burlingame Public Library stamp. The repository lists Internet Archive as sponsor and contributor; the library stamp does not identify the digital scan supplier. This file uses the original camera JP2 offered in the original-image archive, raw leaf 738.

• Complete source page, page 722.
• Digitized volume and catalogue.
• Exact original camera JP2 used for this file.
• Exact source leaf and pagination metadata.
• Printed October 1878 issue opening.

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

File and processing

PNG, 1910 × 1840 pixels, RGB; natural paper colour retained. Original JP2: 5616 × 3744 pixels, 1155262 bytes, SHA-256 e19fadbac50504146445a0d8390c1ff17260c412353c7bf22f531e40cc77c3ad.

Lossless 90-degree counterclockwise transpose, then source-metadata page crop (509, 469)–(3409, 5073). Native context crop (450, 250)–(2420, 2180). Alignment checked against 37 printed caption glyph components (approximately 0.001007 degree); the already aligned source was not rotated or resampled again. Final trim (30, 45)–(1940, 1885); right and bottom bounds are exclusive. Complete composition, faint hatching, captions and meaningful marks are retained. No added canvas is included. No enlargement, colour or tonal correction, sharpening, retouching, removal of a stamp or reconstruction was applied. PNG compression is lossless; the complete input 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.