Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Lichen sketch

Lichen sketch

 * Reason:High technical quality and undisputable enc.
 * Articles this image appears in:lichen
 * Creator:Ernst Haeckel


 * Support as nominator TheOtherSiguy (talk) 21:00, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Support. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 19:16, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Support Very encyclopedic and detailed(and a bit historic) illustrations. The scan quality is enough to clearly show the edge of detail in the original. Sam Barsoom 20:51, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Support. Detailed and beautiful!   Spinach Dip  20:23, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Question Do these sketches have a particular historic value (such as being the first to describe the objects)? Are they accurate by the standards of modern illustration/photography? Guest9999 (talk) 00:20, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Haeckel's work (with some notable exceptions in embryology) is usually considered reasonably accurate. ernst Haeckel was a major 19th century biologist, though he's best known today for "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny", a misguided notion. Obviously, we shouldnðt be using him for cladistics or developmental biology, but he's quite accurate in his depiction of macroscopic organisms, as far as an artistically-arranged painting goes, and they are certainly excellent and encyclopaedic overviews of the subjects, showing the variety very well. He is also notable as one of the earliest major users of colour lithography. In my opinion, he's certainly accurate enough for an overview, and his overviews are usually praised for artistry as much as biology. As they are artistic portrayals, however, I wouldn't use him for identification of individual species. Shoemaker&#39;s Holiday (talk) 11:54, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Support Great image. Spencer  T♦C 14:05, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

MER-C 09:31, 6 April 2008 (UTC)