Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/A Sensation Novel redux

A Sensation Novel (redux)
Voting period ends on 28 Nov 2022  at 08:07:44 (UTC)
 * Reason:Barely missed passing in one of the worst months for FPs (we had only 12 in all of October, which is very, very bad). It does a really good job at depicting the nature of the opera: characters from a melodramatic book coming to life at the end of each volume. Indeed, this is one of those images that biographies of Gilbert love commenting on.
 * Articles in which this image appears:A Sensation Novel, German Reed Entertainments, Thomas German Reed, Royal Gallery of Illustration
 * FP category for this image:WP:FP/THEATRE
 * Creator:Robert Jacob Hamerton, restored by Adam Cuerden


 * Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.2% of all FPs. Currently celebrating his 600th FP! 08:07, 18 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Support – Another excellent restoration. By the way,, is image restoration as easy as you make it seem? (I know very little about the subject.) Nythar  (💬-🎃) 08:12, 18 November 2022 (UTC)
 * It's... something I'm been doing for fifteen years, and I think I've gotten a lot faster over that time. I'd say it depends on the image. Some are nightmarish little puzzles to spot what should be there under the damage - consider the hair in this image of Bret Harte. Some are basic dust and speck removal. A rare few are are reassembly puzzles. One of the bigger challenges is getting the borders, surprisingly enough. You want a nice, even-coloured paper edge, and that can be a lot of dodge/burn (lightening and darkening tools) at low percentages; lots of use of the healing brush; lots of things. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.2% of all FPs. Currently celebrating his 600th FP! 08:28, 18 November 2022 (UTC)
 * The results are worth the effort, though. I do like scrolling through your user page sometimes. Seeing historical images so unblemished is something that interests me; a different way of seeing the past. Thanks for that! — Nythar  (💬-🎃) 08:37, 18 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I've dropped something on your talk page that may be of interest.... Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.2% of all FPs. Currently celebrating his 600th FP! 08:50, 18 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Support. MER-C 11:40, 19 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Support – per previous nom. Bammesk (talk) 13:14, 19 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Support. —David Eppstein (talk) 19:42, 19 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Support – Choliamb (talk) 22:40, 19 November 2022 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 16:42, 29 November 2022 (UTC)