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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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Blavatsky portraits and photographs 

These are photographs, paintings, scultures, and other depictions of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, also known as HPB.

Photograph or Art Work Year Created Artist Notes
H.Hahn and H.Blavatsky.jpg 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.
HPB - NY.JPG Unknown H. P. Blavatsky in New York days, from blavatskyarchives.com
HP Blavatsky 1877.jpg 1877 Unknown
HPB portrait.jpg Hermann Schmiechen Fragment of painting by Hermann Schmiechen.
HPB in 1880s.jpg Unknown
HPB reading book JPEG.jpg Unknown Photo of HPB reading book. Scanned by Theosophical Society in Archives.
HPBphoto.jpg Unknown
HPB with Mead and Pryse.jpg 1880s Unknown H. P. Blavatsky sitting in a bath-chair, with G. R. S. Mead (right) and James Morgan Pryse.
HPB and HSO final meeting JPEG.jpg 1880s Unknown H. P. Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott in their final meeting in India.
1888 Kodak photo by W Q Judge.jpg 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
HP Blavatsky 1.jpg 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.
HPB death mask.jpg 1891 Unknown Death mask of HPB as printed in May 1991 issue of "The Theosophist".
Borglum portrait of HPB.jpg 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.
Founders stature in Adyar.jpg Unknown Unknown
Helder - Sketch of HPB.jpg 1931 Z. Vanessa Helder Sketch published in World Theosophy vol. 1 no. 8, August 1931, p. 599.
Blavatsky HP - stature with sphynx.jpg 2000s Unknown
Blavatsky HP - head (A.Leonov) 1.jpg 2000s A. Leonov
Blavatsky HP - head (A.Leonov) 2.jpg 2000s A. Leonov