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Russian battleship Dvenadsat Apostolov

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Original – Russian battleship Dvenadsat Apostolov, 1892 lithograph.

Reason: High-quality colour lithograph of a ssubject somewhat under-represented.
Articles in which this image appears: Russian battleship Dvenadsat Apostolov
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Vehicles/Water#Military
Creator: Chromolithography of Stadler and Pattinot, After Vasily Ignatius. Restored by Adam Cuerden.

Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 6.7% of all FPs} 22:01, 20 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support - As always Adam :) --LLcentury (talk) 01:25, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support Geoffroi (talk) 09:29, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support - are those blobs on the ropes above the bow damage or are they real? MER-C 16:22, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- ...Let's pretend I didn't miss that. Should've rechecked after the levels, some damage likes to hide until the colours are tweaked. It's fixed now. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 6.7% of all FPs} 19:47, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support - DreamSparrow ^Chat 08:14, 22 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I always prefer real photographs to a painting, however given the date, I'm not sure that we can get high quality photographs. For example, is it even possible to get a high definition of this image or is the source too poor? Mattximus (talk) 21:30, 25 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- @Mattximus: My philosophy is that if a good photograph of a ship from this period exists, that's fantastic, but for specific ships, I'm not going to hold my breath. I think lithographs and paintings can be useful for showing colour, which is otherwise lost from this era, which is. however, most important for the camouflage painting of the First World War or thereabouts.

But which ships have photographs taken in the first place, in good enough condition to matter, and available high-definition is such a crap shoot that I'm not sure it's worth considering unless we have one to hand. Plus, this era of ships go through so much reworking in a desperate attempt to keep them relevant that, unless you happen on photos of them in the same state as in the lithograph, they're complementary anyway. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 6.7% of all FPs} 02:25, 26 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

- - I tend to view them as separate, but related, things with the illustration conveying a lot of different information related to the art. My favorite example is this beauty, an illustration of the sinking of a Russian battleship by a Japanese mine during the Russo-Japanese War: File:Sinking of the Petropavlovsk.jpg.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 23:33, 27 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support.--Vulp here 14:42, 26 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support as the editor of the article on the ship.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 23:33, 27 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Russian Fleet (1892) il. 12 Dvenadsat Apostolov - Restoration, cropped.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 23:09, 30 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]