Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Newton portrait with apple tree.svg

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File:Newton portrait with apple tree.svg, not featured[edit]

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  • The engraving you found is certainly closer to the one in the nomination. Looking at the curls, necktie and shadows in the that engraving, it might be based on the one I found (1720) since it is just a book illustration of a later date (1878). --Cart (talk) 12:01, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • didn't "find" the engraving. The file description gives sources for the Newton engraving and the tree engraving. Only the apple is original. I agree that there are similarities (the mouth shape is different) which may indicate it being derivative. The etch marks are nearly identical in the SVG. -- Colin (talk) 13:02, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose I don't understand why sky in the left side of the tree is black but on the other side is white. The reproduction in SVG can't have been trivial but there is less detail than the original, especially where the dark area of hair has effectively been crushed to solid black. One other problem with the montage is that Newton is lit from the left, the tree is lit from the front-right and the apple from the front. The apple just seems randomly placed. -- Colin (talk) 11:52, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • The composition, light, placing of apple, partial heavy frame and everything is well within the artistic freedom and style of Art Nouveau. Nothing wrong with it, I only question if this work is original enough to be FP. Looking at the style of the creator, I'd also guess that the tree is borrowed from some other work. --Cart (talk) 12:25, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Yes only the apple is original. I guess it just doesn't work for me :-). It also isn't clear to me why one would want to emulate an etching in SVG rather than create a more realistic image. -- Colin (talk) 13:02, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Request If you don't intend to 'withdraw' or 'FPX contested' this nom, would you please not close and archive this. It can be used to check if or how long it will take for FPCBot to deal with this. Thank you for helping us improve the Bot. If the nominator whishes to make a new nomination, I think that would be ok since they would be "donating" the end/closing of this nom to the Bot Fixing Project. :-) --Cart (talk) 10:16, 21 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
 Thank you for nominating this image. Unfortunately, it does not fall within the Guidelines and is unlikely to succeed for the following reason: Not going to overcome these 4 opposes in the time that is left and per the opposes--BoothSift 02:34, 21 May 2019 (UTC)[reply] Anyone other than the nominator who disagrees may override this template by changing {{FPX}} to {{FPX contested}} and adding a vote in support. Voting will then continue in the usual way. If not contested within 24 hours, this nomination may be closed.
Confirmed results:
Result: 1 support, 4 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /--Cart (talk) 06:59, 24 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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