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'''Blavatsky portraits and photographs''' | '''Blavatsky portraits and photographs''' | ||
These are photographs, paintings, scultures, and other depictions of [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]], also known as HPB. | |||
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| style="text-align:left;" | | | style="text-align:left;" | Death mask of HPB as printed in May 1991 issue of [[The Theosophist (periodical)|"The Theosophist"]]. | ||
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Blavatsky portraits and photographs
These are photographs, paintings, scultures, and other depictions of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, also known as HPB.
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Late 1840s | Unknown | Painting of young H. P. Blavatsky and her mother, H. Hahn. It is at the H. P. B. museum in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine. The painter is unknown, but it may have been HPB herself. |
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Unknown | H. P. Blavatsky in New York days, from blavatskyarchives.com | |
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1877 | Unknown | |
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Hermann Schmiechen | Fragment of painting by Hermann Schmiechen. | |
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Unknown | ||
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Unknown | Photo of HPB reading book. Scanned by Theosophical Society in Archives. | |
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Unknown | ||
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1880s | Unknown | H. P. Blavatsky sitting in a bath-chair, with G. R. S. Mead (right) and James Morgan Pryse. |
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1880s | Unknown | H. P. Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott in their final meeting in India. |
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1888 | William Quan Judge | Photo taken with Kodak camera as HPB was working on Lucifer. Photo courtesy of Will Thackara at International Theosophical Society (Pasadena); restoration of photo by Pavel Malakhov. QUOTE FROM ECHOES OF THE ORIENT VOL 1 pages 259, 262-263 |
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January 8, 1889 | Enrico Resta | "The Sphinx" pose - the most famous image of HPB. This was taken in 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. Image from the Theosophical Society in America Archives. |
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1891 | Unknown | Death mask of HPB as printed in May 1991 issue of "The Theosophist". |
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ca1889-1909 | Gutzon Borglum | 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 headquarters building of the Theosophical Society in America. It was painted between 1889 and 1909, when the father died. |
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Unknown | Unknown | |
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1931 | Z. Vanessa Helder | Sketch published in World Theosophy vol. 1 no. 8, August 1931, p. 599. |
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2000s | Unknown | |
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2000s | A. Leonov | |
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2000s | A. Leonov |