File:The Sunday at Home 1880 - Psalm 23.jpg

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Summary

Description

Psalm 23, King James Version
An image of Psalm 23 (King James' Version), frontispiece to the 1880 omnibus printing of The Sunday at Home. Scanned at 800 dpi.
Text:

The Lord is my Shepherd;--I shall not want.

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures:
He leadeth me beside the still waters.
He restoreth my soul:
He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil:
For thou art with me;--thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies:
Thou anointest my head with oil;--my cup runneth over.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life:
And I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.

PSALM XXIII

Date

1880

Source

The Sunday at Home: A Family Magazine for Sabbath Reading, 1880 [collected volume], London, Religious Tract Society, Paternoster Row, 164 Picadilly.

This Bible illustration is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: Cleaned up dirt, stains, small hairs, and other flaws due to age, fixed a few very minor misprints in this particular print, e.g. small ink blobs and slightly incomplete letters.
The right edge didn't lay entirely flat on the scanner, fixed this.
Levels adjustment against original print, some selective work on the text, to correct some fading.
One of the inks, a metallicish bronze ink, didn't scan correctly due to its slight shininess, this had to be manually corrected. (luckily, the shininess appears to have been incidental to its colour, given how it was used.. The original can be viewed here: The Sunday at Home 1880 - Psalm 23 original scan.jpg: . Modifications made by Adam Cuerden.

Author

Uncertain, but:

Most likely:

Edmund Evans (1826–1905)
Alternative names	Edmund William Evans
Description	British painter and illustrator
Date of birth/death	23 February 1826	21 August 1905
Location of birth/death	London	Isle of Wight
Work location	London
Authority file	: Q4529602 VIAF: 71519059 ISNI: 0000000083928947 ULAN: 500023437 LCCN: n81059993 NLA: 35071074 WorldCat

Also known to have printed in that volume:

Joseph Martin Kronheim (1810–1896)
Description	German lithographer
Date of birth/death	26 October 1810	1896
Location of birth/death	Magdeburg	Berlin
Authority file	: Q13627811 VIAF: 63883132 ISNI: 0000000049749507 LCCN: nr93036171 GND: 1046473476 Koninklijke: 216295203 WorldCat

One possibility someone mentioned
[Not known to have printed in this volume]:

William Dickes (1815–1892)
Alternative names	W. Dickes
Description	engraver, lithographer and illustrator
Date of birth/death	1815	1892
Authority file	: Q8007814 VIAF: 95813151 ISNI: 0000000082485451 ULAN: 500021406 LCCN: n83227350 GND: 121236676X WorldCat

Restored by:

Adam Cuerden
Description	British Image restorationist, composer, amateur photographer and artist, and Wikipedian As Adam lives in Britain, which makes it incredibly easy to acquire copyright in his works, he grants, if needed, an irrevokable license to use this work however you see fit. He requests attribution where possible, and realises that "where possible" means that that request is not legally enforcable. Adam Cuerden (talk) 15:44, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
Date of birth	8 June 1979
Location of birth	United States of America

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File history

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	21:30, 7 June 2010	5,192 × 7,116 (19.43 MB)	Adam Cuerden	Not quite sure what happened there....
	21:10, 7 June 2010	5,192 × 7,116 (11.09 MB)	Adam Cuerden	The sky's been bothering me a little - it looked muddy compared tot he original. Went in and fixed it.
	07:43, 3 June 2010	5,192 × 7,116 (19.28 MB)	Adam Cuerden	Very minor fix - there was a tiny shadow in the upper right.
	06:43, 31 May 2010	5,192 × 7,116 (19.28 MB)	Adam Cuerden	found a few more bits of bronze ink
	02:02, 30 May 2010	5,192 × 7,116 (19.28 MB)	Adam Cuerden	having done the comparison, some final tweaks
	01:44, 30 May 2010	5,192 × 7,116 (19.09 MB)	Adam Cuerden	Reverted to version as of 01:33, 30 May 2010 wanted to do a quick compare
	01:43, 30 May 2010	5,192 × 7,116 (18.81 MB)	Adam Cuerden	Reverted to version as of 22:47, 28 May 2010
	01:33, 30 May 2010	5,192 × 7,116 (19.09 MB)	Adam Cuerden	Some semi-shiny bronze ink was scanning much more red than it was. Some tweaks to fix this.
	22:47, 28 May 2010	5,192 × 7,116 (18.81 MB)	Adam Cuerden	Few tweaks to right side.
	21:04, 28 May 2010	5,192 × 7,116 (18.79 MB)	Adam Cuerden	Uploaded wrong file.