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Summary

Description

The Bar, Captree Island. A tavern interior with a man leaning against the counter, a partly visible man behind it and a seated man with his hands behind his head. The window, vacant foreground chair, ceiling beams, counter, figures, floorboards and hatching match H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 7, page 272, item 2. The complete engraved frame, printed caption and the marks Abbey and VARLEY are retained.

From Around the Peconics, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume LVII, no. 341, October 1878, printed p. 711 (New York: Harper & Brothers). The page directly prints its folio 711. The volume's physical title page prints June to November 1878; the October issue opening prints No. CCCXLI. The repository's generic date 1913 is not this physical volume's publication date.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art catalogues the surviving woodblock as The Bar, from Captree Island (Harper's, New Monthly Magazine, October 1878, p. 711), artist Edwin Austin Abbey, 1878, object 46.49.53. This independently supports the artist and exact journal reference. The mark VARLEY is retained without expanding it into an unverified full name. This upload is the journal scan supplied by Internet Archive, not a museum image; no museum image licence is transferred to it. The first appearance and the physical copy used for the scrapbook cutting remain unestablished.

Source

Internet Archive, identifier harpersmagazine57alde, a physical volume bearing the Burlingame Public Library stamp. Internet Archive is listed as sponsor and contributor; the physical library stamp does not identify the scan supplier. Original colour camera JP2, raw leaf 727.

• Complete source page, printed p. 711.
• Digitized volume and catalogue.
• Exact original camera JP2 used for this file.
• Source leaf and page metadata.
• Metropolitan Museum of Art: the original woodblock, object 46.49.53.

Thank you to Internet Archive for preserving this volume and freely providing its original colour camera files, and to The Metropolitan Museum of Art for its precise catalogue record of the original woodblock.

File and processing

PNG, 2300 × 2160 pixels, RGB; natural paper colour retained. Original JP2: 5616 × 3744 pixels, 1360122 bytes, SHA-256 be2eb0905e35929210629709ffe9747c1b306b8aafff0d41c92ec41a42d7cdae.

Lossless 90-degree clockwise transpose, then source-metadata page crop (294, 477)–(3201, 5103). Native context crop (270, 780)–(2640, 3010), one bicubic correction of 1.003796 degrees clockwise measured from 18 printed caption glyph components, then final trim (35, 35)–(2335, 2195). Right and bottom bounds are exclusive. Complete composition, engraved border, faint hatching, caption and signatures are retained; adjacent article prose is outside the crop. No added canvas, enlargement, colour or tonal correction, sharpening, retouching or reconstruction was applied. The PNG is lossless; the original 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.