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Summary

Description

Bellinzona, on St. Gothard Route, matching H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 7, page 276, item 3. The mountain outlines, crenellated towers and diagonal wall, chimney smoke, foreground roof and vine trellis, stepped left recess and engraved strokes match. The complete composition, frame and original printed caption are retained. The rectangular crop retains the original printed article text in the stepped recess; no missing artwork or artificial paper was invented. The Burlingame Public Library stamp below this area remains intact on the unchanged full source scan, available at the source links; it is outside this cropped engraving and caption. The exact engraved design is confirmed; the artist, engraver and physical copy used for the album cutting are not independently established here.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol. LVII, no. 341, October 1878, p. 657 (New York: Harper & Brothers). The issue opening prints No. CCCXLI, October 1878 and Vol. LVII; the bound title page prints June to November 1878. The exact source leaf/page mapping identifies original camera exposure 673 as p. 657. The date of this impression does not establish when the scrapbook leaf was assembled.

Source

Internet Archive, identifier harpersmagazine57alde, ark:/13960/t8w97kr8k. Original colour camera exposure 673. The physical volume bears the Burlingame Public Library stamp; the current record lists Internet Archive as contributor and burlingamepubliclibrary as donor. The catalogue's generic date 1913 is not the date of this physical volume and is not used here.

• Complete source page.
• Digitized volume and current catalogue.
• Exact unchanged original camera JP2.
• Leaf and page mapping.

Thank you to Internet Archive for preserving this volume and freely sharing its original colour camera files, and to Burlingame Public Library for the source copy.

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. The exact current repository record and freely available original member were checked 4 November 2026.

File and processing

Lossless RGB PNG, 2440 × 3240 pixels, preserving the natural paper colour. Original camera JP2: 5616 × 3744 pixels, 1705673 bytes, SHA-256 9f74d9ad7e43ad158fb20ab914917a2ed7e9c43cf95babb627a824daa6837c98.

Lossless 90-degree clockwise transpose, then one 1.220755277-degree clockwise bicubic correction on the full native 3744 × 5616 canvas without expansion, measured from 27 printed caption glyph baselines. Final crop (540, 720)–(2980, 3960), right and bottom exclusive. Complete composition and caption remain within the original image-supported area. No added canvas, enlargement, colour or tonal correction, sharpening, retouching or reconstruction. Final pixels were independently reproduced from the unchanged original JP2.