Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Portland Vase fragments

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Original – Thomas H. Shepherd's 1845 watercolor of the smashed Portland Vase prior to its reconstruction by John Doubleday.

Reason: Unusual media reflecting an unusual problem: A 19th century technical watercolor of a smashed vase prior to reconstruction. The original image includes a test pattern for calibration (as does the first Wikimedia upload, since cropped), so I believe these colors are faithful and the uniform browning is simply an aspect of the paper's age (contrast it against this photo of the image when it was new). I know some people here have well-developed opinions about what image margins should look like; these look okay to me, but I'd also support alternate versions if they're a sticking point.
Articles in which this image appears: Conservation and restoration of glass objects, Portland Vase, Vandalism of art, John Doubleday (restorer) (FA)
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Diagrams, drawings, and maps/Diagrams
Creator: Thomas H. Shepherd, uploaded and cropped by Usernameunique

Support as nominator – Moonreach (talk) 18:34, 10 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - JPG artifacting is pretty bad, as expected at 300 kb for a file this size. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 21:16, 10 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I confess I didn't notice anything until you mentioned it. To me, the colored areas look pretty good, but I missed how it was portraying the areas around lines. I did a reverse image search just now to see if I could find a larger file copy to propose as an alt, but sadly had no luck. Moonreach (talk) 13:46, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Same, and the British Museum is now saying that they don't have a digital copy of the image. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 17:17, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 23:20, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]