Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Verdi conducts Aida

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OriginalGuiseppe Verdi conducts Aida
Reason
One of the few featureable images of Verdi himsellf (It is HARD to get images of him at bigger than web resolution - unless you count massive upscales). I've recently went through Aida - which was a mess beforehand - and tried to get it down to only images that add a substantial amount of value, appropriately positioned (the other issue with images before - there really was no rhyme or reason to image positioning).
Articles in which this image appears
Aida
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Theatre
Creator
Adrien Marie, restored by Adam Cuerden
Question: Was that a pen & ink drawing? Sca (talk) 13:48, 10 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@Sca: I'm not sure. It's a little hard to tell when it's converted to printing. It'll be something like that, but it could, for example, be ink with washes, or watercolour. The originals may exist, but it's rare to ever see them. Adam Cuerden (talk) 14:37, 10 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
So it's a print from an etched lead plate ... ? Sca (talk) 14:52, 10 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I'm honestly unsure. It's from a newspaper, so it'll be some sort of engraving, but the standard for this time was woodblock and it's kind of unusual for that, which throws me. Adam Cuerden (talk) 15:21, 10 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
If this old boy remembers right, the old newspaper 'cuts' were wood blocks topped with a layer of lead alloy. Then they were 'stereotyped' onto curved lead-alloy printing plates for the old rotary (letterpress) presses. Sca (talk) 16:08, 10 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I think that's more modern than was used in 1881, though. Pretty sure that was before rotary plates. Adam Cuerden (talk) 16:50, 10 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Probably so. And maybe the 'cuts' were zinc-topped not lead-alloy.
I do remember the gnomes emerging from Engraving in acid-ravaged clothes. Sca (talk) 17:15, 10 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Ach, if you have photos of any of this, we need them on Wikipedia. =) Adam Cuerden (talk) 17:27, 10 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Verdi conducting Aida in Paris 1880 - Gallica - Restoration.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 16:10, 19 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]