Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Vegetable lamb

Vegetable Lamb of Tartary

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 21 Apr 2011 at 23:05:57 (UTC)

Original - A diagram of the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary, a legendary zoophyte believed to grow sheep as fruit. It was historically used as an explanation for the origin of cotton.

Reason: A good picture of the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary. It is high quality and provides much historical context.
Articles in which this image appears: Vegetable Lamb of Tartary, Cotton
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/Others
Creator: Mgiganteus1

Support as nominator --InverseHypercube 23:05, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support I love the image, any chance of a higher quality scan, though? Aaadddaaammm (talk) 18:35, 13 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support High EV and decent scan. Higher resolution would be nice indeed. I'm thinking April Fools next year? Jujutacular ^talk 18:43, 13 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support. J Milburn (talk) 23:30, 13 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Thank you for the support! I didn't upload the image, so I can't get a higher-resolution scan, nor can I see how it would benefit the image much. Out of curiosity: what does EV mean? Expected value? Thanks. InverseHypercube 06:26, 14 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Encyclopedic V. Nergaal (talk) 17:13, 14 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Weak oppose At 902 pixels small indeed. Brandmeister t 12:27, 14 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Support Ok now. Brandmeister t 09:00, 18 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

~~Weak~~ support this is soooo eyecatching... but the quality is much lower than ideal. Nergaal (talk) 17:12, 14 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Original uploader here. I can get a better scan tomorrow, although I'm not sure there's much detail to be gained. mgiganteus1 (talk) 01:29, 17 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Awesome! More resolution is always better. Looking forward to supporting it! Aaadddaaammm (talk) 10:56, 17 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Higher res scan uploaded. mgiganteus1 (talk) 12:07, 17 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Weak oppose. This is a 19th-century copy of a Renaissance original. The original book survives in a number of rare books libraries around the world. Since I think the original would have greater value than the copy, I can't support this one, even though the visual concept is such an arresting one. Chick Bowen 16:12, 17 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Note on authorship: can we assume that this was originally drawn by Johann Zahn, the author of the 1696 work? Or is authorship unknown? Jujutacular ^talk 20:51, 19 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

My source (Tree Ferns by M.F. Large J.E. Braggins) only has this to say: "Figure 6. The barometz or vegetable lamb, from Lee (1887), redrawn from Johann Zahn's Specula Physico-Mathematico-Historica Notabilium ac Mirabilium Sciendorum, in Qua Mundi Mirabilis Oeconomia,...Norimbergae, 1696." mgiganteus1 (talk) 00:32, 7 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Support It's a simple drawing, I don't really see much improvement on the image's clarity with the new scan. Though the higher quality scan makes it more in line with the rules.--Nanoman657 (talk) 12:56, 21 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Clarification of authorship before closing, please. Makeemlighter (talk) 02:25, 25 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Mgiganteus1 left a note above, it seems we have no way of being sure of authorship. Jujutacular ^talk 03:36, 8 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Vegetable lamb (Lee, 1887).jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 23:56, 9 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]