Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Whistlejacket

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Original – Whistlejacket
 
ALT – A very small amount of canvas restored digitally
Reason
Good quality and high EV notwithstanding a tight crop on the left
Articles in which this image appears
Whistlejacket, Horses in art, 1762 in art
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings
Creator
George Stubbs
  • Support I can't believe that The National Gallery would screw up the crop so badly as the presumption that the crop was screwed up would imply. It's probably one of those things where, if seen in its original context, it would make more sense (or that it was cropped with a saw at some point for some reason). Adam Cuerden (talk) 22:29, 30 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • It is not acceptable to add fake parts to a painting. Well ... maybe if it is certain that the picture was originally bigger, and the exact original dimensions are known, and it is certain that there was nothing in that part other than continuation of the same flat green colour, and the picture is accompanied by some big disclaimers explaining the reconstruction. Even then I'm not sure... 86.160.84.127 (talk) 19:46, 3 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • I'd certainly not add the extra white space, because the main image in a painting article is generally supposed to represent the painting as it is today. Adding the extra space on the other side, even if historically true, feels like WP:OR and misrepresentative of the work. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 22:57, 3 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • The original painting visible in the National Gallery does in fact have a bit more space to the left of the tail. The current crop has chopped off a centimeter or so of hairs that were present in the original, but even the original framed painting appears to have a bit covered by the frame. Stigmatella aurantiaca (talk) 02:24, 4 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • About 1 centimeter or maybe a bit more. To get this estimate, I took the Wiki image, rendered it transparent, and using Gimp, overlaid, rotated, and scaled to match the Beeb image as closely as possible. At the zoom level that I was using for this exercise, 2–3 pixels of excess cropping on the left edge corresponded to 1–1.5 cm. The excess cropping appears to have been necessitated by the original image being tilted by about a centimeter or so. Including all of the tail would have brought in some of the upper left hand frame. Stigmatella aurantiaca (talk) 03:23, 4 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Change to Support ALT, its better :) -- ТимофейЛееСуда. 17:54, 5 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Whistlejacket by George Stubbs edit.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 12:35, 10 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]