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Summary

Description

Que pouvait être cet animal inconnu?, illustration by A. Robida in Voyages très extraordinaires de Saturnin Farandoul, matching the lower illustration on the back scan H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 10, page 300, back/300.1, album scan. The family of monkeys, the infant held upside down above the cradle, the right-hand monkey reading a sheet, and the tails, landscape and small figures match. The same matrix is reprinted in Puck, 28 January 1880, p. 768, without the French caption. This is a matching book witness, not an assertion that the physical album cutting came from this book.

Source

A. Robida, Voyages très extraordinaires de Saturnin Farandoul, première partie, Le roi des singes, Paris: Librairie illustrée / Librairie M. Dreyfous, [1879], printed p. 3, PDF page 13. The photographed title credits texte et dessins par A. Robida and both publishers; it does not print a year. [1879] is the Getty/Internet Archive catalogue date, explicitly sourced there to Lorenz, not an inferred printed date or exact day of first publication.

Getty Research Institute, call number 292594; Internet Archive identifier voyagestrsextrao01robi, ark ark:/13960/t5bc54g6s. The catalogue identifies the author as Albert Robida (1848-1926); the printed title's A. Robida credit is preserved.

• Exact Getty/Internet Archive book record.
• Complete book; target PDF page 13, printed p. 3.
• Matching Puck printing, p. 768/PDF page 10, 28 January 1880.

Thank you to the Getty Research Institute and Internet Archive for freely providing and preserving the colour book scan and catalogue. Natural yellow/cream paper, stains and black printing are retained, not digitally colourized.

Rights

Historical nineteenth-century published illustration (catalogued 1879 and independently present in the examined 1880 Puck issue); the underlying published work is public domain in the United States by age. Current exact public archive record/download verified 4 November 2026. No separate Creative Commons licence or Public Domain Mark for this digitization is asserted. Source and author credit retained.

File and processing

Lossless RGB PNG, 1784 × 1476 pixels. PDF page 13 combines a 739 × 1233 RGB paper/background layer with a 2217 × 3698 RGB foreground and its JBIG2 mask. The PDF rounds the physical page to 399 × 665 points; both layers were faithfully composed on the original foreground's 2217 × 3698 pixel canvas, using that full canvas's width and height rather than enlarging the foreground to a 4000-pixel preview. Original layer streams remain unchanged in local evidence.

One fine 0.143243° clockwise BICUBIC rotation on the complete native canvas, measured from a robust median of the printed French caption's letter baselines; no canvas expansion. The original subject rectangle (220, 1070)–(2000, 2540) was transformed, then enclosed by exact crop (218, 1067)–(2002, 2543), right/bottom exclusive. All monkeys, cradle, tails, landscape and the complete French caption remain. Support-mask minimum255: no exterior fill wedges. Complete composition and final pixels independently reproduced.

No enlargement, tonal adjustment, colourization, sharpening, retouching or reconstruction. Changes: faithful source-layer composition, fine rotation and cropping only. Original PDF SHA-256 26d8e05559b1a7aea6c54968f2a3b812bb0a57197a00791ae11b0d8fd3755123. This is a larger rendition of the same scene already represented by File:Robida А - Voyages 1.jpg; that prior file is preserved.