Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Duke of Wellington Photo cleaned.jpg

File:Duke of Wellington Photo cleaned.jpg, not featured

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Historical#1800-1850
•  Info You wouldn't think there is actually a photograph of the victor of the battle of Waterloo, would you? Yes, I know the quality is pretty crummy compared to modern images, but this daguerreotype is actually a photograph of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, taken as early as 1844. When this was taken, telephones and cars did not exist, California was still part of Mexico, Italy and Germany were still not countries proper and dynamite had not yet been invented. That's enough wow factor for me.

And Sir Tristram, violer d'amores, had passencore rearrived from North Armorica, either. Daniel Case (talk) 04:28, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

• Created by Antoine Claudet, uploaded by Hohum and nominated by Peulle just because it exists, which is almost miraculous in itself.-- Peulle (talk) 15:58, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
•  Support -- Peulle (talk) 15:58, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 16:15, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

• It seems that better versions are available... --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 16:22, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

• For the record, here it is: File:Portrait of the Duke of Wellington, 1844.jpg. This is certainly FP worthy, after some restoration. Regards, Yann (talk) 07:36, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

•  Oppose I would support if we had a high resolution copy, but at 0.76 Megapixel, no. There is a 1004 × 1390 version here. Yann (talk) 16:24, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
  • How bizarre. That Alamy image you link to is simply a slight upscale of the image after I'd cleaned up the face, not the original version. Hohum (talk) 18:00, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
•  Oppose per Martin. Martin, thanks for checking into that. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 23:19, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
•  Oppose It not look cleaned --Photographer 01:25, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
•  Oppose per others. Daniel Case (talk) 04:27, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

 I withdraw my nomination Thanks for finding those higher resolutions off-site. :) --Peulle (talk) 08:10, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 1 support, 4 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /MZaplotnik^(talk) 21:03, 8 January 2019 (UTC)