Template:Did you know nominations/Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth

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The result was: promoted by Allen3 ^talk 16:22, 22 October 2011 (UTC)

Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth

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... that John Singer Sargent depicted Ellen Terry playing Lady Macbeth in a dress decorated with green beetle's wings?

Reviewed: Thomas Fortescue Kennedy

Created/expanded by Theramin (talk). Self nom at 23:53, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for developing this article -- the portrait and the dress are both amazing. Article length and dates check out as OK. I've added some reference citations and added a bit of content that I found while checking sources. The article would benefit from more careful inline citations of sources. I did not find anything in the article that would constitute plagiarism or copyvio.

The image is very striking, but the full image does not show up well at this scale; it would benefit from cropping.

The hook is OK and it is adequately sourced, but it is not as effective as I think it could be. Here are some suggestions:

ALT1 ... that an oil painting (pictured) by John Singer Sargent depicts Ellen Terry playing Lady Macbeth in a dress decorated with 1,000 iridescent green beetle wings?
ALT2 ... that the dress worn by Ellen Terry in John Singer Sargent's painting of her portrayal of Lady Macbeth (pictured) is decorated with 1,000 iridescent green beetle wings?

My preference is ALT2. --Orlady (talk) 03:48, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

I've uploaded a cropped version of the image, at right. --Orlady (talk) 03:57, 19 October 2011 (UTC)