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Summary

Description

The Sphygmograph, matching the illustration on H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 12, page 216, item 1. Instrument on the forearm, including the wrist strap, OZS TROY dial, clockwork box, upright lever, hatching, outer frame and original title. The album is rotated relative to this source. The plate has no visible printed folio; the following printed page 7 explicitly identifies this large engraving as page 6. The artist and engraver are not established here. This is a separate scanned impression; the identity of the physical copy used for the album cutting is not established.

Source

Psyche, vol. 21, no. 1, whole no. 493, March 1882, plate [6] (PDF page 10 of 20). The dated cover and the relevant complete source page were examined. Volume and issue numbering are corroborated by the IAPSOP issue index.

• IAPSOP title and issue index.
• Complete digitized issue.

Digital scan provided by the International Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals (IAPSOP). Thank you to IAPSOP for freely preserving and sharing this issue.

Rights

The IAPSOP title page states that IAPSOP materials are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, checked 4 November 2026. Attribution: IAPSOP, Psyche, March 1882; links above. Changes: extraction of the complete page at its native full-page raster dimensions and cropping as specified below.

File and processing

Lossless RGB PNG, 2415 × 1755 pixels. Original PDF SHA-256 3c06fe73c32446dcb57bdb1086a52b76634c853d7f7539854c9ac7c15fbc1426. Complete page composed with all source images, masks and captions on its original full-page raster canvas; crop (650, 600)–(3065, 2355), right and bottom exclusive. No enlargement. Printed horizontal geometry is already aligned; no rotation or further resampling. This supplied scan is monochrome: it does not reproduce the natural colour of the paper or the album's red ornament. No colourization, tonal adjustment, sharpening, retouching or reconstruction. Complete-page pixels and final crop were independently reproduced and checked.