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The Caves of Elephanta, near Bombay. Exact engraving corresponding to H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 9, page 21, item 1: the large crowned bust at the right, profile behind it, standing and crouching figures at the left, overhead niche, projecting stonework and foreground all match. The complete composition and printed caption are retained. The album's handwritten mark on the forehead is not present in the independent source. No unverified artist attribution is added.
The Illustrated London News, volume 67, no. 1893, 20 November 1875, printed p. 516. The physical page header and caption directly establish the date, folio and spelling Elephanta. The image is printed below two separate portraits on this page; those portraits are outside this crop.
Source
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München, The illustrated London news. 67. 1875, shelfmark 2 Per. 15 f-67, BSB-ID 991019497679707356, digital object bsb11307645, urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb11307645-2, digitized by Google. Printed p. 516 is canvas 588; the canvas index is not the printed folio.
Thank you to the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and the Munich Digitization Center for preserving this volume and freely providing its colour scans and page-level access.
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PNG, 2655 × 2240 pixels, RGB, natural paper colour. Source JPEG: 3227 × 4692 pixels, 2087223 bytes, SHA-256 9e84bc76f09c71b727a0fcab2002c656ddbd573e5c6353b0727716954d94c99a.
Native context crop (340, 2140)–(3085, 4470), one bicubic deskew of 1.4153943 degrees counterclockwise measured from 13 printed caption components, then trim (45, 45)–(2700, 2285); right and bottom bounds are exclusive. The complete engraved frame and caption are retained with a paper margin. No added canvas, enlargement, colour or tonal adjustment, sharpening, retouching or reconstruction. The original scan's slight perspective, colour moire and show-through remain; no synthetic restoration was applied. The complete source file remains unchanged.
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The library's current manifest states No Copyright — Non-Commercial Use Only (NoC-NC 1.0). Attribution: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München; digitized by Google. This is a rights statement, not a Creative Commons licence.
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