Talk:The Abbey in the Oakwood

I translated this article from the German. Feel free to expand it or correct "mein Deutsch". Lithoderm (talk) 01:21, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Two small queries
1) the intro says it was painted between 1808 and 1810, but the rest of the article says that it was painted between 1809 and 1810 - which should it be? (presumably 1809, but wouldn't want to guess at it) sorted (copy/paste error, apparently) 2) "tawny owl" - the image is too small to see any owl at all, but confirmation requested that on the original the species of owl is identifiable? HeartofaDog (talk) 13:47, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Hmmm... I can't make out any owl at all, using the zoom-able viewer on the Web gallery of art. Of course, there would be precedent for it in Friedrich's drawings- not that that verifies this. Can anyone with printed references verify this?  Litho  derm  18:20, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the above hard work on this, which makes the point highly effectively that a horned owl is recgnisable in silhouette even if it is very small, whereas a tawny owl probably isn't. I noticed that in the edit history of the German article on which this is based, that there was criticism of some of it for being too much based on "personal observation" in the gallery - I wonder, since as yet there is no evidence apart from this one unsupported assertion of the existence of any sort of owl, whether it would be better to hide that sentence pending confirmation? HeartofaDog (talk) 12:23, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I agree, and will do so. I cannot make out any owl, even in the printed reproductions I have. Thanks for taking another look at the original article.  Litho  derm  13:44, 24 November 2008 (UTC)