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Blavatsky portraits and photographs
| Photograph or art work | Year | Artist | Notes |
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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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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 W. Image from the Theosophical Society in America Archives. |
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18????? | Gutzon Borglum | Painted for his Theosophist father by the sculptor of Mount Rushmore, copied from the Resta photograph. |
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1931 | Z. Vanessa Helder | Sketch published in World Theosophy vol. 1 no. 8, August 1931, p. 599. |