Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The Journey

 
Original - "The Journey": illustration by Elizabeth Shippen Green for a series of poems by Josephine Preston Peabody, entitled "The Little Past", which relate experiences of childhood from a child's perspective. Poems and illustration were published in Harper's Magazine, December 1903. Restored digital file from original oil painting.
Reason
Believe it or not, the only example of illustration at children's literature was a small black and white nonfree image until this took its place. Elizabeth Shippen Green was a children's book illustrator and this example seems especially apt: a child peers through a train window and imagines palaces in the air. Scanned from the original oil painting and restored from File:The Journey.jpg. Lower resolution version for slower connections available at File:The_Journey2_courtesy_copy.jpg.
Articles this image appears in
Elizabeth Shippen Green, Children's literature, Josephine Preston Peabody
Creator
Elizabeth Shippen Green

Promoted File:The Journey2.jpg MER-C 06:12, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]