Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Abraham Lincoln O-77 matte collodion print.jpg

Gettysberg Portrait
Voting period ends on 26 Jul 2024  at 14:29:14 (UTC)
 * Reason:It is high-resolution (2,200 × 2,835 px), and captures Abraham Lincoln's likeness better than any other portrait. The Wikipedia caption of the image says "Lincoln’s character was notoriously difficult to capture in pictures, but Alexander Gardner’s close-up portrait, quite innovative in contrast to the typical full-length portrait style, comes closest to preserving the expressive contours of Lincoln’s face and his penetrating gaze."
 * Articles in which this image appears:Abraham Lincoln
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/People/Political
 * Creator:Alexander Gardner


 * Support as nominator – Wcamp9 (talk) 14:29, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Since this is an encyclopedia, you might want to check the spelling of your nomination. The town in Pennsylvania is a borough, not a mountain. :) - Choliamb (talk) 19:37, 19 July 2024 (UTC)


 * Documentation is terrible: https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&f=&s=&record=0&id_number=1947.135 - the supposed source - is a sepia-toned portrait and very small. This image exists in various crops; https://www.loc.gov/item/scsm000793/ is a maybe? https://www.loc.gov/resource/ppmsca.19301/ is also possible. Or there's https://www.loc.gov/resource/ppmsca.38948/ - I'd probably need to compare them all. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.9% of all FPs. 18:29, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
 * That's a huge 4835 × 5718 TIFF file at: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppmsca.19301/ - with some bungled retouching, but it might be a good candidate for a restoration. --Janke | Talk 18:49, 16 July 2024 (UTC)