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Summary

Description

Science Versus Mother Goose. Illustration from Boys and Girls, explicitly credited Illustrated by Porte Crayon on the printed page. A witch-like figure and winged child ride a flying goose towards a bearded man holding measuring instruments, seated on a fantastic skeletal creature amid smoke.

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol. LIV (54), no. CCCXIX (319), December 1876, printed p.19. The bound volume covers December 1876 to May 1877 and is catalogued as 1877; the actual issue opening explicitly gives December1876 and no.319. The engraver is not securely identified here.

The goose, riders, broom, small flame, measuring instruments, skeletal creature, smoke, water and caption match the central scrapbook illustration. Other pasted pictures in scrapbook item1 are separate works and are not attributed to Porte Crayon here. Compared directly with H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume3, page159, item1. This witness does not establish the first-ever appearance or identify the physical copy used for the scrapbook.

Source

Colour scan provided by Brigham Young University–Idaho, David O. McKay Library, through Internet Archive, identifier harpersnew054various, ARK ark:/13960/t3kw80f8k.

• Digitized volume and catalogue record.
• Complete colour page, printed p.19.
• Actual December1876 issue opening, no.319.

Thank you to Brigham Young University–Idaho, David O. McKay Library, and Internet Archive for preserving this volume and making its colour scan freely available.

File and processing

PNG, 1861 × 1406 pixels, RGB. Retained complete source JPEG: 2201 × 3653 pixels, 1167700 bytes, SHA-256 46a801791bd4868062fcb9b9b413fe54b48f44b81163a11fee417e770f79eaac.

Crop from(150, 350)–(2035, 1780), then trim to(12, 12)–(1873, 1418); right and bottom bounds are exclusive. Alignment corrected by 0.165761 degrees clockwise, with one bicubic resampling. The full engraving, original caption and visible signature or credit are retained. No added canvas is included. Natural paper colour, marks and show-through are preserved. No enlargement, colour or tonal adjustment, sharpening, retouching or reconstruction was applied. PNG compression is lossless; the source itself is JPEG. The complete page remains linked above.

Rights

Public-domain historical illustration published in the United States in1876, reproduced by a faithful library scan. The issue opening carries the1876 copyright notice. No Creative Commons licence or Public Domain Mark is attributed to this repository object.