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| style="text-align:left;" |H. P. Blavatsky sitting in a bath-chair, with [[G. R. S. Mead]] (right) and [[James Morgan Pryse]].
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| [[Gutzon Borglum]]
| [[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]].
| 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.
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| style="text-align:left;" | Sketch published in [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] vol. 1 no. 8, August 1931, p. 599.
| style="text-align:left;" | Sketch published in [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] vol. 1 no. 8, August 1931, p. 599.
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Blavatsky portraits and photographs 


Photograph or Art Work Year Created Artist Notes
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.
Unknown H. P. Blavatsky in New York days, from blavatskyarchives.com
1877 Unknown
Hermann Schmiechen Fragment of painting by Hermann Schmiechen.
Unknown
Unknown Photo of HPB reading book. Scanned by Theosophical Society in Archives.
Unknown
1880s Unknown H. P. Blavatsky sitting in a bath-chair, with G. R. S. Mead (right) and James Morgan Pryse.
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
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.
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.
Unknown Unknown
1931 Z. Vanessa Helder Sketch published in World Theosophy vol. 1 no. 8, August 1931, p. 599.
2000s A. Leonov style="text-align:left;"