File:SB-10-300-source-1.png
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Description
Illustrated headpiece for Hermesianax Pratt, matching the upper illustration on the back scan H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 10, page 300, back/300.1, album scan. The globe labelled Australia/America, central aquarium with fish, surrounding figures, animals, weapons and their arrangement match the album. The pasted Russian newspaper heading and text in the album are a collage overlay; they do not establish that this printed illustration originated in Новое время.
Source
Puck, vol. VI, no. 151, 28 January 1880, printed p. 768, PDF page 10, headpiece above Hermesianax Pratt, part first, Oceanica, chapter I, The Foundling of the Seas. The text credits its illustrations to A. Robida; no separate engraver is identified. The complete page and dated issue cover were personally examined. The cover imprint is Keppler & Schwarzmann, New York; the archive's generic Open Court publisher metadata is not substituted for the printed imprint.
The fold-out coloured map in Robida's Voyages très extraordinaires de Saturnin Farandoul uses related elements, but the Puck headpiece rearranges figures and changes lettering and details. That map is not an exact colour impression of this whole matrix. No first-ever publication or exact physical exemplar of the album cutting is claimed.
Thank you to Internet Archive for freely providing the complete issue and its preservation metadata. Source: Serials in Microfilm, reel IA1630702-01.
Rights
Historical illustration published in the United States in 1880; the underlying published work is public domain in the United States by age. Exact archive record and public PDF checked 4 November 2026. No separate Creative Commons licence or Public Domain Mark for the digitization is asserted. Artist and source credits retained.
File and processing
Lossless RGB PNG, 3060 × 1205 pixels. Full 400-dpi page composition is 3820 × 5284, using both grayscale JPX layers and the foreground JBIG2 soft mask of PDF page 10. Exact crop (465, 600)–(3525, 1805), right/bottom exclusive, preserves the complete illustration and excludes surrounding type and page rules. Printed rules already horizontal; no rotation or further resampling. Complete page and final pixels independently reproduced.
Clear monochrome microfilm witness, not a natural paper-colour master. No enlargement, tonal or colour adjustment, sharpening, retouching or reconstruction. Changes: faithful native-density full-page composition and cropping. Original PDF SHA-256 72faaaf1d48395daaec3a47cf4f2f3b5c857e261f6b7320e2b92d125bc6c6821.
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| current | 14:32, 4 November 2026 | | 3,060 × 1,205 (2.56 MB) | Sergey (addition | contribs) | == Description == '''Illustrated headpiece for Hermesianax Pratt''', matching the '''upper illustration on the back scan''' H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 10, page 300, back/300.1, album scan. The globe labelled Australia/America, central aquarium with fish, surrounding figures, animals, weapons and their arrangement match the album. The pasted Russian newspaper heading and text in the album are a collage overlay; they do not establish that th... |
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