Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty fight to the death at the Reichenbach Falls

Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty fight to the death at the Reichenbach Falls

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Original – The Death of Sherlock Holmes (Sidney Paget, 1893) Umpf! Urg! Gerroff! Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty tussling at the Reichenbach Falls (Spoiler: Holmes only pretends to die; he tips the Prof over the edge thanks to his baritsu skills (presumably scalding him with frothy milk) and then skips off for a world tour without a word to Watson)

Reason

Iconic image of detective fiction; the grudge match between The Great Detective and The Napoleon of Crime. I admit this isn't a sure thing for FP because it is actually lower resolution that the image it replaced and has competition from the original pen and ink drawing. However I think having the caption and frame to the plate is important as this is how it was originally presented, and the Paget artwork was only produced to allow the print to be created, so don't make yourself look silly by arguing against it on those points (I'm attempting peer pressure here). The line across the print is because the original artwork was in two pieces.

Articles in which this image appears

The Final Problem, The Adventure of the Empty House and in a gallery in Reichenbach Falls

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Literary illustrations

Creator

Sidney Paget

• Support as nominator – Belle (talk) 09:53, 24 July 2015 (UTC)
• Oppose - Below the minimum resolution. Otherwise very nice. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 13:29, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

  Is it? There's 2369280 pixels in this image and in a minimum square one (1500x1500) there would be 2250000; so, as I calculate, it has 119280 more pixels than the minimum (it had even more before I cropped the monkey out). Belle (talk) 13:49, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

  Problem is, our minimum isn't megapixels. It's a fixed length. There are exceptions (that scroll a bit further below is one) but for something that could easily be scanned at a higher resolution such as this, I can't consider it an exception. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 14:34, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

  Booooooooooooo! Now you've got to go on my enemies list; and you were doing so well today. Can I Withdraw this then? Belle (talk) 15:00, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 17:14, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

• Withdrawn nomination. --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 17:14, 24 July 2015 (UTC)