Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:William Hogarth - Beer Street.jpg
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Image:William Hogarth - Beer Street.jpg and Image:William Hogarth - Gin Lane.jpg, not featured[edit]
Info created by William Hogarth - uploaded and nominated by Adam Cuerden --Adam Cuerden 14:27, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
Comment These images are almost always referred to together, as they were published as a set, so I'm nominating them together. The quality should be the same for both - if not, tell me, and I'll rescan. (By the way, I've added a redirect from Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:William Hogarth - Gin Lane.jpg so that, if this goes through, the templates should still work for the Featured picture notice}
Support --Adam Cuerden 14:27, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
Question Could you provide more details of the source? The description says "Reprint from circa 1880 in uploader's possession". Are they scanned from an old book, or from large framed prints? Could you explain the basis for the 1880 date? Regards. --MichaelMaggs 17:34, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
- They were a gift acquired through Abebooks.com, so I don't know, so I don't know everything. The information that came with them (on a label attached to their pouch says c. 1880; this is believable, as the method of printing is typical of that used for high-quality engravings of that time, complete with tissue-paper coverings for each plate, which also shows they've clearly been cut out of a book, I'm presuming well before the bookstore owner got them, because that would be desecration and I would be very upset at someone who did that. The fonts used on the supplementary material - the labels in red on the tissue paper, and the black and red ink used on the description page (not scanned) are also typical of the period. However, a lot of collections o f Hogarth's works were printed in the 19th century, so it's difficult to say which it was taken from. this one seems not unreasonable, at a guess. Adam Cuerden 18:46, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks. I'm inclined to support, but I don't think we (yet) have any way of promoting a series. I think we ought to find a way, though. --MichaelMaggs 20:15, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
- Well, could divide them in two, I guess, but they were intended to be seen together. Adam Cuerden 23:30, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
- English wikipedia has an Imageframe template and I have seen at least one image here use an Image Map. It seems like either one of these options could be used without messing with the regular delivery system here. -- carol 23:25, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
- Well, could divide them in two, I guess, but they were intended to be seen together. Adam Cuerden 23:30, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks. I'm inclined to support, but I don't think we (yet) have any way of promoting a series. I think we ought to find a way, though. --MichaelMaggs 20:15, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
- They were a gift acquired through Abebooks.com, so I don't know, so I don't know everything. The information that came with them (on a label attached to their pouch says c. 1880; this is believable, as the method of printing is typical of that used for high-quality engravings of that time, complete with tissue-paper coverings for each plate, which also shows they've clearly been cut out of a book, I'm presuming well before the bookstore owner got them, because that would be desecration and I would be very upset at someone who did that. The fonts used on the supplementary material - the labels in red on the tissue paper, and the black and red ink used on the description page (not scanned) are also typical of the period. However, a lot of collections o f Hogarth's works were printed in the 19th century, so it's difficult to say which it was taken from. this one seems not unreasonable, at a guess. Adam Cuerden 18:46, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
Neutral This isn't one of Hogarth's originals, but a copy by Samuel Davenport. It is interesting in its own right, but I'm a bit worried that it will be passed off as Hogarth's own work. The plate of Beer Street lacks the precision of Gin Lane and both misses and mixes features from the issued states. Yomangani 23:56, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
result: 1 support, 0 oppose, 1 neutral => not featured. Mywood 17:06, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
