Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The Winter's Tale

The Winter's Tale

Original - Winter's Tale, Act II, scene 3, from a painting by John Opie commissioned and prepared for engraving by the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery.

Not for voting - Unrestored. The paper around the border was, annoyingly, the hardest part to fix, because it's simply filthy, with a lot of the dirt and stains overlapping text - which is exceptionally fiddly restoration - but the image itself, the fun part of a restoration, was in decent condition. Had to carefully clean everything and reconstruct most of the paper around the borders to get an even tone, and it took hours.

Reason: It's a high-resolution Shakespearean artwork with a fairly interesting history, if one that can be explained briefly (see caption, and linked articles). Also, look at that use of lighting to emphasise the main characters - the window drawing the eye to Antigonus; the shining armour - so well done - emphasising Leontes and pulling him out of the dark in the middle, and Perdita in a pool of white cloth surrounded by dark soldiers. Do look at this one at full size - there's a whole lot of detail here. =) Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 02:56, 14 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Articles this image appears in: The Winter's Tale, Boydell Shakespeare Gallery, John Opie.
Creator: Painting by John Opie, engraved by J.P. Simon

Support as nominator --Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 00:20, 14 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. Durova^Charge! 04:28, 14 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. Noodle snacks (talk) 05:06, 14 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support: Maedin\^talk 19:42, 16 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. Synergy 00:26, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Sophus Bie ^(talk) 02:33, 19 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Good EV. Makeemlighter (talk) 00:15, 21 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:John Opie - Winter's Tale, Act II. Scene III.jpg MER-C 10:31, 21 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]