File:SB-07-284-source-1.png

Summary

Description

Character Head, drawn from life by Miss F. E. Manchester, matching H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 7, page 284, item 2. The face and downcast gaze, tall head covering with turned border, white scarf, shoulder crosshatching and F. E. Manchester signature match. The complete original frame, signature and two-line caption are retained. The sitter is unidentified; no nationality, costume identification or expanded artist initials are inferred. The exact engraved design is confirmed; the engraver and physical copy used for the album cutting are not independently established here.

Original caption:

CHARACTER HEAD, DRAWN FROM LIFE BY MISS F. E. MANCHESTER, ART STUDENTS’ LEAGUE; WALTER SHIRLAW, TEACHER.

From Scribner's Monthly, vol. XVI, no. 6, October 1878, p. 769, The Art-Schools of New York (New York: Scribner & Co.). The physical source page prints the article title and folio 769; the issue opening prints October 1878. The repository's current leaf/page map also identifies leaf 787 as p. 769. This impression's date does not establish when the scrapbook leaf was assembled.

Source

Internet Archive / Robarts Library, University of Toronto, identifier centuryillustrat16newyuoft, ark:/13960/t4kk9633q, call number AIV-5179. The broad catalogue title The Century illustrated monthly magazine and date range 1871–1930 describe the serial record; this physical volume is Scribner's Monthly, 1878.

• Complete source page.
• Complete volume and catalogue.
• Downloadable processed JP2 archive, exact member centuryillustrat16newyuoft_jp2/centuryillustrat16newyuoft_0787.jp2.
• Leaf and page mapping.

Thank you to Robarts Library, University of Toronto, and Internet Archive for freely providing this digitized volume.

Rights

Historical illustration published in the United States in 1878, now in the public domain by publication age; reproduced by a faithful scan. The current repository record, checked 4 November 2026, states Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT, region US, and records a visible 1878 copyright notice. This catalogue assessment is reported as such; no Creative Commons licence, Public Domain Mark, or separate institutional reproduction licence is asserted for this scan.

File and processing

Lossless RGB PNG, 1410 × 1700 pixels, retaining the natural cream paper colour. Input is the repository's processed JP2 at 2312 × 3546 pixels, 746751 bytes, SHA-256 afc47cc8d73ecc957ad59d69dfab545e482c1206533b692209eab69e40c632a4. It is not described as an original camera master or an enlarged PDF rendering.

Native-pixel crop (440, 290)–(1850, 1990), right and bottom exclusive. Whole frame, drawing, artist signature and complete caption remain. Alignment checked on 397 samples each of the upper and lower frame, approximately +0.0567 and −0.0049 degrees. The already level image was not resampled or artificially dewarped. No rotation, enlargement, colour or tonal correction, sharpening, retouching or reconstruction. Final crop pixels were independently checked against the unchanged JP2. Displayed as a small portrait thumbnail in Sources; the full prepared file remains available.