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Midas

Original - In the Nathaniel Hawthorne version of the Midas myth, Midas's daughter turns to a statue when he touches her. Illustration by Walter Crane, for A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys, 1893 edition.

Reason

Illustration of Nathaniel Hawthorne's variant of the King Midas myth. Hawthorne introduced the version of the story in which midas turns his daughter into a statue with his golden touch. Restored version of File:Midas gold.jpg.

Articles this image appears in

Midas, Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys

Creator

Walter Crane

• Support as nominator --Durova²⁸⁵ 01:23, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
• I know lines in illustrations of this era aren't expected to be straight, and I can see that in this image. However, it feels as though the illustration is a parallelogram (drawing lines seems to confirm this). Is this part and parcel of Victorian illustration? MER-C 08:24, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
  • It often is. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 10:10, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Odd - you'd think they would notice it too. Oh, well. Support. MER-C 11:57, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

I presume it just wasn't considered an issue to check. It's worst in woodblock engravings, of course, since the pieces are glued together after carving, but also common in this sort of thing, and etc. It's probably something to do with the paper the artists used being cut to size by hand, or the like. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 11:20, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

• Support GerardM (talk) 08:34, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
• Support Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 11:20, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Promoted -- Seddσn ^talk|^WikimediaUK 01:23, 4 August 2009 (UTC)