Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Joseph Mallord William Turner - Snow Storm - Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth - WGA23178.jpg

Snow Storm
Voting period ends on 17 Dec 2014  at 03:48:37 (UTC)
 * Reason: This is a most well known, famous and iconic painting of a great iconic painter, William Turner, (1775 - 1851). Think about that this was painted in 1842, it was absolute revolutionary. Turner  means the  savage grandeur of a natural world, unmastered by mankind. A most original painter. Hope the file is big enough. If not - hope for a solution...
 * Articles in which this image appears:Snow Storm (painting), William Turner, Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps, Tate Britain
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings
 * Creator:William Turner


 * Support as nominator – Hafspajen (talk) 03:48, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Weak support - The resolution is a bit on the low side. With good art reproductions becoming more common, not even having a pixel every millimetre is a bit weak IMHO. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:30, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
 * You wouldn't believe how bad the files on Turner are... File:Joseph Mallord William Turner 053.jpg, File:Joseph Mallord William Turner - Fishermen at Sea - Google Art Project.jpg - none of the good paintings files are bigger, blast them all. I tried to find something both used and a classical Turner, you know. Something that really is good of of him. I want this one because this is really TURNER at his best. Hafspajen (talk) 00:31, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Good art reproductions might becoming more common, but not this one. I went through all kinds of image search, sorry not ONE that is bigger anywhere on internet. This is the biggest, 2,510 × 1,879 pixels, 6.57 MB. Hafspajen (talk) 02:55, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Per: edit 2: - More recently, art historian Alexandra Wettlaufer wrote that the painting is one of Turner's "most famous, and most obscure, sublime depictions".undefined Hafspajen (talk) 03:15, 6 December 2014 (UTC)


 * This is a very good painting! Can't anyone find a better scan?- If anybody can come up with any bigger on this... tried to fix an other scan - but it's not available. It's in the Tate, does anyone have access to Tate? Hafspajen (talk) 03:15, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Adam, what's with the Tate? Hafspajen (talk) 03:08, 9 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Support I usually don't feel I'm qualified to vote on art nominations, but I happened to be familiar with Turner, and when I saw the pic, before reading anything else around the picture I thought "hey this looks just like the landscapes that English dude used to paint; what was his name again?". Of course, if any larger versions come up, please consider my support for them as well, but this one is still above the "official" limit and it would be a pity to drop this nomination because of it. You can always delist and replace later. --Ebertakis (talk) 23:19, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 03:49, 17 December 2014 (UTC)