wrote about the photographs Beardsley had taken: The important factor here is that H.P.B. In an undated letter, written to Professor H. HPB inscription to Nadezhda AndreyevnaPhotograph taken in Ithaca NY in October 1875 while HPB was visiting Professor Hiram Corson and writing Isis Unveiled. Evidently HPB was persuaded to order additional prints after distributing the first two. Another version, provided by the Blavatsky Archives website, was inscribed to Hiram Corson. This photo was scanned from the Geoffrey Barborka book Tibet and Tulku, and was inscribed by HPB to her friend, poet Epes Sargent. Blavatsky Collected Writings Volume I and XIV. Sargent, or even Olcott got one, and have to wait. Really, putting all vanity aside, how can I send you such an awful caricature? So I gave two of those libel pictures to two persons I do not care about but neither you nor Mrs. There I am, represented on it looking like some elderly idiot staring disconsolately at a she spirit with a rooster crest on its head, making faces at me. I have none, and passing through New York had some taken at a spirit photographers. I seldom allow my noble countenance to get immortalized in portraits. You may think me perhaps a cheat if you did not forget that I promised you my portrait, and that you have to see it yet. HPB wrote of this in a letter to Professor Hiram Corson: Portrait by a spiritualist photographer in New York. Blavatsky Collected Writings Volume II, and in a collage as the frontispiece of World Theosophy in September 1931. Blavatsky, and edition in 1913, but not in the 1886 first edition. This portrait appears in a collage as the frontispiece of World Theosophy in September 1931 and also printed in a rectangular format in H. Most likely the picture about which General Rostislav wrote: "taken 20 years ago in my presence." September 18, 1881. The image shown here was provided by the Blavatsky Archives website of Daniel H. The portrait also appears in a collage as the frontispiece of World Theosophy in September 1931. A scan of that print is available at the Ukrainian website. Ī print "copied by" the London studio of Elliott & Fry is in the photo album of HBP's sister Vera Jelihovsky, which is held by the State Archives of the Russian Federation. Blavatsky." The print was from a medallion painting, which had been sent to Nadyejda de Fadeyev (as related when her photograph was shown. The reproduction was made by means of a special process from a printed copy which was first published in Sinnett's book "Incidents in the Life of Mme. The painter is unknown, but it may have been HPB herself. Blavatsky and her mother, Helena Andreyevna Hahn. Caldwell and a video provided by Cees Slob. > See also a gallery of closeups of HPB compiled by Daniel H.
Please be certain to ask the creators for permission before making use of copyright-protected photographs and art. Higher-resolution versions are available for some photos from Theosophical Society in America Archives. Contact the wiki administrators with suggestions. Additions and corrections are welcome - especially information that might help pinpoint the dates and creators of these works.
Other sources are identified where possible, with copyright data if applicable for the more recent works. The digital photo collection of Blavatsky Archives was an important source. 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. Many thanks go to the Edmonton Theosophical Society for the website, and to Geoffrey Barborka for the research that went into its collection. Blavatsky," which has more recently evolved into a slide show. This collection of photos was inspired by a display on the Theosophy Canada website in 2005, "A Pictorial Look at H. Cartoons and caricatures have been omitted. Individual renderings and small groups are included, but not large group photos such as those taken at early Theosophical Society conventions. They are presented chronologically by date of creation, as much as possible. These are photographs, paintings, drawings, sculptures, and other depictions of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, also known as Madame Blavatsky or HPB.
Frontispiece of World Theosophy, September, 1931
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