Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Charles Cooper Henderson - Mail Coaches on the Road- the Louth-London Royal Mail progressing at Speed - Google Art Project.jpg

The London Royal Mail
Voting period ends on 13 Mar 2015  at 14:31:06 (UTC)
 * Reason:Charles Cooper Henderson was British painter of horses and coaches. The painting depicts a Mail coach on the road- the Louth-London Royal Mail. A team of men  in top hats driving the mail coach on the road with whips in their hands.  32,4 cm (12.76 in) x Width: 52,7 cm (20.75 in); between 1820 and 1830, oil on canvas.   In the Yale Center for British Art. It is all Sca's fault, by the way. He started this with:what was there before the Fed-ex thing.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Charles Cooper Henderson
 * FP category for this image: Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Culture and lifestyle perhaps
 * Creator:Charles Cooper Henderson


 * Support as nominator – Hafspajen (talk) 14:31, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Support - though I'm curious as to what the pattern in the sky is. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:33, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
 * We call them clouds, the usual sky pattern over London. Is it different elsewhere? ;) SchroCat (talk) 23:47, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Take a closer look. Some have almost diagonal lines, some have vertical lines... — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:58, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Brushwork? Hafspajen (talk) 00:15, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Or the texture of the canvas, perhaps? If the darker clouds have more paint applied to them, that would make sense... just I've seen something similar with a photograph I took before. Nobody ever brought it up at FPC, but... — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:42, 4 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Support - SchroCat (talk) 23:47, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Support – Very nice, sufficient EV. SagaciousPhil  - Chat 12:53, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Support  --Jobas (talk) 01:03, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Support  --PetarM (talk) 16:20, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 14:38, 13 March 2015 (UTC)