Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Original Stories from Real Life

Original - Frontispiece to the 1791 edition of Original Stories from Real Life, scanned from the initial sketch by William Blake.

Reason: Frontispiece for the only complete work of children's literature by Mary Wollstonecraft, illustrated by a major artist and scanned from the original artist's sketch. The illustrations for this work (including this illustration in particular) are discussed in depth at the featured article about the book. Restored version of File:Blake Wollstonecraft sketch.jpg.
Articles this image appears in: Original_Stories_from_Real_Life#Illustrations
Creator: William Blake

Support as nominator --Durova³⁵⁷ 19:39, 5 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support, looks good to me. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 20:17, 5 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Good to see you back Juliancolton. We knew you couldn't stay away from the WP. As for the image, is its lack of crispness because of the medium (I am assuming watercolor) or some other (fixable) reason? Nezzadar ^[SPEAK] 03:10, 6 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- "Wash drawings for illustrations of Mary Wollstonecraft's Original stories from real life."[1] Durova³⁵⁷ 03:24, 6 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support for encyclopedic value, and as per reasons given by nominator. Mostlyharmless (talk) 22:29, 7 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support great work and a great gift. GerardM (talk) 07:55, 9 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. Spikebrennan (talk) 16:55, 13 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Blake Wollstonecraft sketch2.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 03:43, 14 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]