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'''Blavatsky portraits and photographs'''
[[File:HPB collage.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Frontispiece of ''World Theosophy'', September, 1931]]
These are photographs, paintings, drawings, sculptures, and other depictions of '''[[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]]''', also known as Madame Blavatsky or '''HPB'''. They are presented chronologically by date of creation, as much as possible. Individual renderings and small groups are included, but not large group photos such as those taken at early Theosophical Society conventions.
This collection of photos was inspired by a display on the '''Theosophy Canada''' website in 2005, "A Pictorial Look at H. P. Blavatsky," which has more recently evolved into a slide show. Many thanks go to the '''Edmonton Theosophical Society''' for the inspiration and the research that went into its collection.
<ref>John Algeo turned "A Pictorial Look at H.P. Blavatsky" into a PDF file that he printed out. A copy is in the John Algeo Papers, Records Series 08.12, Theosophical Society in America Archives, and that was the impetus for this project. The URL was http://www.theosophycanada.com/bios/HPB_Bio.htm. It was printed on June 18, 2005. A backup is available on the [https://web.archive.org/web/20051105023559/http://www.theosophycanada.com/bios/HPB_Bio.htm Wayback Machine of the Internet Archive], for the date November 5, 2005.</ref><ref>Slide show called "HP Blavatsky - A Pictorial Biography" is available at [http://www.theosophycanada.com/hp-blavatsky-a-pictorial-biography.php Theosophy Canada], along with individual photographs. Accessed November 13, 2018.</ref>
Images used here are from several sources, but most were scanned from the photo collection of the [[Theosophical Society in America]] and from printed publications. The digital photo collection of '''[http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbphotos.htm Blavatsky Archives]''' was an important source. Other sources are identified where possible, with copyright data if applicable for the more recent works. Additions and corrections are welcome - especially information that might help pinpoint the dates and creators of these works. Contact the [https://theosophy.wiki/en/Help:Administrators wiki administrators] with suggestions. Higher-resolution versions are available for some photos from Theosophical Society in America Archives.
'''Please be certain to ask the creators for permission before making use of copyright-protected photographs and art.'''
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;  width:90%;"
|-
! Photograph or Art Work
! Year Created
! Artist
! Notes
|-
| [[File:H.Hahn and H.Blavatsky.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |Late 1840s
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | Painting of young H. P. Blavatsky and her mother, H. Hahn. It is at the '''[[H. P. Blavatsky House-Museum|H. P. B. museum in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine]]'''. The painter is unknown, but it may have been HPB herself.
|-
| [[File:Lovely Maiden portrait of HPB.jpg|200px]]
| 1840s
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | HPB painted as "The Lovely Maiden."
<blockquote>
The reproduction was made by means of a special process from a printed copy which was first published in [[A. P. Sinnett|Sinnett's]] book "Incidents in the Life of Mme. Blavatsky." The print was from a medallion painting, which had been sent to Nadyejda de Fadeyev (as related when her photograph was shown.<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref>
</blockquote>
This portrait appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931.
|-
| [[File:HPB young in furs.jpg|200px]]
| 1865-1868
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | Young HPB dressed in furs.
|-
| [[File:HPB in hoop skirt JPEG.jpg|200px]]
| 1860s
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | HPB in a hoop skirt.
<blockquote>
Most likely the picture about which General Rostislav wrote: "taken 20 years ago in my presence." September 18, 1881.<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref>
</blockquote>
This portrait appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931.
|-
| [[File:HPB portrait 9.jpg|200px]]
| 1870s
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | Photograph reproduced in [[A. P. Sinnett|A. P. Sinnett's]] ''Incidents in the Life of Mme. Blavatsky.''<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref>
This portrait appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931.
|-
| [[File:HPB drawing from NYPL Digital Collection.jpg|200px]]
| 1870s
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | From [https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dc-9d43-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 New York Public Library Digital Collection].
|-
| [[File:HPB portrait from NYPL.jpg|200px]]
| 1870s
|Charles T. Scowen
| style="text-align:left;" | From [https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47db-c17c-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 New York Public Library Digital Collection].
|-
| [[File:HPB by Beardsley 1875 smoking.jpg|200px]]
| September 1875
| J. Beardsley
| style="text-align:left;" |Photograph taken in Ithaca NY in September 1875 while HPB was visiting [[Hiram Corson|Professor Hiram Corson]] and writing [[Isis Unveiled (book)|''Isis Unveiled'']].<blockquote>In an undated letter, written to Professor H. Corson, H.P.B. wrote about the photographs Beardsley had taken: The important factor here is that H.P.B. actually ordered two dozen portraits made of this special photograph. "When will Beardsley send me the rest of my portraits? Please order from him two dozen more of those with the cigarette in the hand, only bigger, if he can do them. I will enclose you a post office order for eighty-five dollars in my next; if you answer me, that he is at work on them. I suppose by the thirteen dollars he, too, charged me for the three dozen, that every extra dozen will be four twenty-five. Will you inquire please?"<ref>Eugene Rollin Corson, ''Some Unpublished Letters of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky'' (London: Rider & Co., 1929), 171.</ref><ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref>
</blockquote>
|-
| [[File:HPB by Beardsley 1875 standing.jpg|200px]]
| September 1875
| J. Beardsley
| style="text-align:left;" |Another photograph taken in Ithaca NY in September 1875 while HPB was visiting [[Hiram Corson|Professor Hiram Corson]] and writing [[Isis Unveiled (book)|''Isis Unveiled'']]. It appeared as the frontispiece of the November, 1928 issue of [[The Theosophist (periodical)|''The Theosophist'']] as "An Unpublished Photograph of H.P.B. about 1879," but that year is incorrect.
|-
| [[File:HPB by spiritualist photographer.jpg|200px]]
| 1875-1876
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | Portrait by a spiritualist photographer.
|-
| [[File:HP Blavatsky 1877.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1876-1877
| Napoleon Sarony
| style="text-align:left;" | Taken in New York and used as a frontispiece in early editions of [[Isis Unveiled (book)|''Isis Unveiled'']].<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref>
|-
|  [[File:HPB portrait Edsall Studio.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1876-1878
| Edsall Photographic Studio
| style="text-align:left;" | Taken in New York.
|-
| [[File:HPB - NY.JPG|200px]]
| 1877-1878
| Napoleon Sarony
| style="text-align:left;" | H. P. Blavatsky in New York days, from [http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbphotos.htm Blavatsky Archives].
|-
| [[File:HPB with feather hat.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | ca 1877-1878
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| [[File:HPB with fur sash.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1878
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | HPB en route to India in December, 1878.<ref>''Sunrise'' 46.5 (June/July, 1977), inside front cover.</ref>
|-
| [[File:Bronze medallion.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1878
| [[William R. O'Donovan]]
| style="text-align:left;" | Bronze medallion sculpted by William R. O'Donovan, who knew visited Madame Blavatsky and [[Henry Steel Olcott|Colonel Olcott]] at [[The Lamasery]]. His friendship and the medallion are described by Olcott in [[Old Diary Leaves (book)|''Old Diary Leaves'']], Volume 1, pages 411-412.
|-
| [[File:HPB in 1880s.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1878-1879
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | Fragment of a larger photograph.
|-
| [[File:HPB in 1881.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1881
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| [[File:HPB ca1882.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |ca1882
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | From [https://blavatskytheosophy.com/blavatsky-defeats-an-atheist/ BlavatskyTheosophy.com].
|-
| [[File:HPB with Subba Row and Babaji.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1882-1884
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | HPB with [[T. Subba Row]] and [[Babaji]] ca 1882-1884. From [https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dc-9d42-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 New York Public Library Digital Collection].
|-
| [[File:HPB portrait.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1884-1885
| [[Hermann Schmiechen]]
| style="text-align:left;" | Fragment of painting by [[Hermann Schmiechen]].
|-
| [[File:HPB Schmeichen portrait.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1884-1885
| [[Hermann Schmiechen]]
| style="text-align:left;" | Larger version of painting by [[Hermann Schmiechen]]. This portrait appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931.
|-
| [[File:HPB reading book JPEG.jpg|200px]]
| 1887
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | Photo of HPB reading a book "while residing in Maycot, Crownhill, Upper Norwood, London, at [[Mabel Collins|Mabel Collins']] home She left Ostend for London, May 1, 1887."<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref> Scanned by Theosophical Society in Archives.
|-
| [[File:HPBphoto.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1887
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | Detail from a larger portrait of HPB with a fan, which appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931.
|-
| [[File:HPB with fan.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |possibly 1887
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | HPB with a fan.
|-
| [[File:1888 Kodak photo by W Q Judge.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1888
| [[William Quan Judge]]
| style="text-align:left;" | [[File:Kodak camera.jpg|150px|right|thumb|Kodak camera]]
This view is of HPB at her desk at 17 Landsdowne Road, London, taken by [[William Quan Judge]] with a Kodak camera as she was working on [[Lucifer (periodical)|''Lucifer'']]. The picture was originally published in [[The Path (periodical)|''The Path'']], New York, Vol. VII, May, 1892, p.39."<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref> Mr. Judge wrote of the occasion:
<blockquote>
[No photographs] were obtained of her as she paused in her work until in 1888 this little photograph seized her, after consent, just as she was beginning the day’s work on ''Lucifer'', then in its babyhood. She had, only a short while before, come out from the room behind her and sat down at the desk on which the first pages of ''Lucifer'' were begun and whereon most, if not all, of ''The Secret Doctrine'' was written. The pen in her hand is an American Gold pen given to her by a New York Theosophist and made by John Foley, whose name is known to thousands of writers. The sheet of paper in front is a sheet of the MSS. of ''The Secret Doctrine'', and others lie about.<ref>William Quan Judge, ''Echoes of the Orient Volume 1'' Second edition (Pasadena: Theosophical University Press, 2009), 262. Compiled by Dara Eklund.</ref>
</blockquote>
This copy of the photograph was provided courtesy of Will Thackara at International Theosophical Society (Pasadena); restoration of photo by Vladimir Krasnoperov.
|-
| [[File:HPB_and_family.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1888
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | Taken October, 1888 in London. HPB is seated next to her sister, Vera de Zhelihovsky. Standing behind them are [[Vera Johnston]], [[Charles Johnston]], and [[Henry Steel Olcott]]. 
|-
| [[File:HPB and HSO final meeting JPEG.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1888
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | H. P. Blavatsky and [[Henry Steel Olcott]] in their final meeting, taken in October 1888 in London.
<blockquote>
In the photographic reproduction in ''Collected Writings'', X, 176; shows the following handwritten message by H.P.B.: 'To the [[Aryan Theosophical Society]] of New York, with H.P.B.'s and the H.S.O.'s good wishes', London, October, 1888.<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref>
</blockquote>
|-
| [[File:HP Blavatsky 1.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | January 8, 1889
| [[Enrico Resta]]
| style="text-align:left;" | "The Sphinx" pose - the most famous image of HPB. This was taken in [[Enrico Resta|Resta's]] studio at 4 Coburg Place, Bayswater, London on [[January 8]], 1889. Six glass plates were taken altogether; in some HPB is looking to the side or is holding a cigarette. The originals are now located in the Archives of the Blavatsky Lodge of the Theosophical Society in England, with duplicates at Elliott & Fry, Ltd. in London. Image from the Theosophical Society in America Archives, scanned from Elliot & Fry print.
This photograph has been printed in publications more than any other. Among the first was [[The Path (periodical)|''The Path'']] in February, 1890.
|-
| [[File:HPB smoking.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | January 8, 1889
| [[Enrico Resta]]
| style="text-align:left;" | This is another of the six poses taken in [[Enrico Resta|Resta's]] studio at 4 Coburg Place, Bayswater, London on [[January 8]], 1889.
|-
| [[File:Resta portrait 3.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | January 8, 1889
| [[Enrico Resta]]
| style="text-align:left;" | This is another of the six poses taken in [[Enrico Resta|Resta's]] studio at 4 Coburg Place, Bayswater, London on [[January 8]], 1889. From [http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbphotos.htm Blavatsky Archives].
|-
| [[File:Resta portrait 4.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | January 8, 1889
| [[Enrico Resta]]
| style="text-align:left;" | This is another of the six poses taken in [[Enrico Resta|Resta's]] studio at 4 Coburg Place, Bayswater, London on [[January 8]], 1889. From [http://blavatskyarchives.com/hpbphotos.htm Blavatsky Archives].
|-
| [[File:HPB with Mead and Pryse.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1890
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" |HPB sitting in a bath-chair, with [[G. R. S. Mead]] (right) and [[James Morgan Pryse]]. Taken in London.
|-
| [[File:HPB in bath-chair.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1890
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" |HPB sitting in a bath-chair. This portrait appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931.
|-
| [[File:HPB in white lace.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1890-1891
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | HPB in a white lace shawl holding a copy of [[The Path (periodical)|''The Path'']]. Probably the last photo taken of her. This portrait appears in a collage as the frontispiece of [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] in September 1931.
|-
| [[File:HPB death mask.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1891
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | Side view of death mask of HPB as printed in May 1991 issue of [[The Theosophist (periodical)|''The Theosophist'']].,
|-
| [[File:HPB death mask front.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1891
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | Front view of death mask of HPB, as printed on the cover of the May 1913 issue of [[The American Theosophist (periodical)|''The American Theosophist'']].
|-
| [[File:Borglum_portrait_of_HPB.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | ca1889-1909
| [[Gutzon Borglum]]
| style="text-align:left;" | Painted for his Theosophist father by the sculptor of Mount Rushmore, copied from the Resta photograph. This painting hangs in the Meditation Room in the [[L. W. Rogers Building|headquarters building]] of the [[Theosophical Society in America]]. It was painted between 1889 and 1909, when the father died.
|-
| [[File:HPB engraving by P Vishnevsky.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | ca1893
| P. Vishnevsky
| style="text-align:left;" | This engraving is from the Russian book «Загадочные племена на Голубых горах в дебрях Индии. Дурбар в Лагоре». СПб, 1893. (''Mysterious Tribes from the Blue Mountains in the Deep of India; Durbar in Lahor'', St.Peterburg, 1893.) Thanks go to Oleg Boldyrev and Pavel Malakhov for providing it. The location of the original art is unknown.
|-
| [[File:HPB from Posthumous Memoirs.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | ca1896
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | This is the cover art for a purported autobiography dictated from beyond the grave by Madame Blavatsky, '''''Posthumous Memoirs by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky'''''. Joseph M. Wade, in the preface to this work, described how the spirit of George W. Stephens operated a typewriting machine designed by G. W. N. Yost, whose spirit supervised the operation. The typewriter was enclosed in a cabinet placed a few feet away from a medium who was connecting with HPB. Published in Boston by Jos. M Wade and in London by H. A. Copley 1896. Available from [https://cdn.loc.gov/service/gdc/dcmsiabooks/po/st/hu/mo/us/me/mo/ir/00/wa/de/posthumousmemoir00wade/posthumousmemoir00wade.pdf Library of Congress]. The image may be an automatic drawing.
|-
| [[File:Founders stature in Adyar.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1907
| Govinda Pillai
| style="text-align:left;" | This statue stands in the Great Hall of the Headquarters Building in Adyar, Chennai, India. "[[Henry Steel Olcott|The Colonel]] stands beside H. P. Blavatsky, who is seated, with his hand on her shoulder, an upright, robust figure, with venerable beard and strongly cut features." The statue was unveiled on [[December 7]], 1907." Colonel Olcott had died on [[February 17]] of that year, and the unveiling was an occasion to honor him and his work with Madame Blavatsky. Tribute addresses were given by [[S. Subramania Iyer|Sir S. Subramania Iyer]], Mr. V. C. Seshachariar, Dr. W. A. English, Mr. P. T. Srinivasa Iyengar, Mr. Sitarama Shastri, [[Marie Russak|Mrs. Russak]], and [[Annie Besant]].<ref>"The Unveiling of Colonel Olcott's Statue," ''World Theosophy'' 2.12 (December, 1932), 634-636.</ref>
|-
| [[File:Helder_-_Sketch_of_HPB.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1930
|[[Z. Vanessa Helder]]
| style="text-align:left;" | Graphite sketch based on an 1878 photograph, as published in [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] vol. 1 no. 8, August 1931, p. 599. Previously it had been printed in [http://resources.theosophical.org/pdf/Authors/Jinarajadasa/Jinarajadasa_The_Personality_of_HP_Blavatsky.pdf ''The Personality of H. P. Blavatsky''], a pamphlet written by [[Curuppumullage Jinarājadāsa|C. Jinarājadāsa]] in 1930.
|-
| [[File:Fake of HPB with Ascended Masters.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1930s-1950s
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | This is a '''FAKE photograph''' of HPB with the "Ascended Masters." See [https://blavatskytheosophy.com/the-fake-photo/ "The Fake Photo"] at BlavatskyTheosophy.com website for more information.
|-
| [[File:HPB drawings from 1850s photo.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | Unknown, before 2000s
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | This pencil drawing was made from the 1850s photograph. It was scanned from a reproduction of the pencil drawing in Theosophical Society in America Archives.
|-
| [[File:Blavatsky HP - stature with sphynx.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 2000s
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left; |
|-
| [[File:Blavatsky HP - head (A.Leonov) 1.jpg| 200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 2015-2016
| Alexey Leonov
| style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| [[File:Blavatsky HP - head (A.Leonov) 2.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 2000s
| Alexey Leonov
| style="text-align:left;" | In 2015-2016, bronze versions of this pose were installed at the [[Theosophical Society (Adyar)|Theosophical Society]] headquarters in Adyar, Chennai, India, and at the [[International Theosophical Centre]] in Naarden, The Netherlands. These installations were facilitated by Dialogue of Cultures - United World Fund.
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