Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The Journey

Add links
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Journey[edit]

Original - "The Journey": illustration by Elizabeth Shippen Green for a series of poems by Josephine Preston Peabody, entitled "The Little Past", which relate experiences of childhood from a child's perspective. Poems and illustration were published in Harper's Magazine, December 1903. Restored digital file from original oil painting.
Reason
Believe it or not, the only example of illustration at children's literature was a small black and white nonfree image until this took its place. Elizabeth Shippen Green was a children's book illustrator and this example seems especially apt: a child peers through a train window and imagines palaces in the air. Scanned from the original oil painting and restored from File:The Journey.jpg. Lower resolution version for slower connections available at File:The_Journey2_courtesy_copy.jpg.
Articles this image appears in
Elizabeth Shippen Green, Children's literature, Josephine Preston Peabody
Creator
Elizabeth Shippen Green
  • Support as nominator --DurovaCharge! 16:40, 24 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment A propos of nothing, you're prompting me to look for some good hi-res scans of the N.C. Wyeth illustrations for books like Treasure Island. Spikebrennan (talk) 19:51, 24 February 2009 (UTC). I can't upload from where I am, but what about this? [1][reply]
  • Support This is encyclopedic and relates to the subject very well. An excellent illustration! Mimigu (talk) 03:28, 25 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Excellent EV and simply beautiful. Makeemlighter (talk) 13:31, 25 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support per Mimigu. Fletcher (talk) 23:30, 25 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - beautiful in detail. Complete and informative caption. —Mattisse (Talk) 20:52, 26 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment: Are we certain that this is a picture of an oil painting? I don't know that much about painting and the different media, but this doesn't look like an oil to me. Would someone be able to elaborate? Maedin\talk 19:33, 28 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • That's what it says in the Library of Congress bibliographic notes.[2] DurovaCharge! 19:50, 28 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
      • What is the likelihood that they may have it labelled incorrectly? I'm not certain that the Library of Congress could have got it wrong, but I think it would be very embarrassing to feature a painting as an oil when it might not be. Shame my oil painter friend and I have separated, or I would ask him. Does anyone else think this looks like an oil? Maedin\talk 20:10, 28 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
        • See WP:RS, WP:V, and WP:NOR. DurovaCharge! 20:15, 28 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
          • Thank you, I know all of those. I wasn't suggesting that it be labelled as something else; I was suggesting that it needn't be heralded in the caption if there was some reasonable doubt. I'm not even suggesting that my doubts are reasonable, which is why I was asking for further opinions, which haven't been provided yet. Maedin\talk 20:27, 28 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
            • We have no source as a basis for doubting the accuracy of the caption. There are many styles of oil painting, and a highly reliable source that states this is in that medium. If a new source emerges to contradict that, then of course that would be a different matter. DurovaCharge! 20:42, 28 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:The Journey2.jpg MER-C 06:12, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/The_Journey&oldid=1138152616"