Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Original New Yorker cover

Original New Yorker cover
Voting period ends on 14 Jan 2021  at 06:22:54 (UTC)
 * Reason:Historically and aesthetically significant, recently entered the public domain
 * Articles in which this image appears:The New Yorker
 * FP category for this image:Featured_pictures/Artwork/Literary_illustrations
 * Creator:Rea Irvin


 * Support as nominator – PDMagazineCoverUploading (talk) 06:22, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Comment. Some of the visible imperfections (e.g. creases near the spine) add to the authenticity of the image without really detracting from its content, and given the quality of the original print I'm not sure that higher resolution is really necessary. But I'm a bit concerned about the jpeg artifacts visible in most of the shaded areas, their sudden disappearance into blur in the hat, and what look like unsharp masking artifacts near the contrasty parts of the image. I think maybe it's been a bit overprocessed. Is this really the best scan available? —David Eppstein (talk) 07:50, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
 * The source also says it's a reprint from the 50s. It feels way under-documented. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.8% of all FPs 08:32, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Artifacts are probably from halftone screen interference and filtering, rather than jpg. --Janke | Talk 12:01, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
 * If its a reprint from the 50s, would that mean its not in the public domain? GamerPro64  05:50, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Per Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp., exact copies of public domain materials do not have copyright protection. PDMagazineCoverUploading (talk) 08:01, 5 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Comment – Has been reproduced a great many times, becoming a visual cliché. – Sca (talk) 13:45, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 08:24, 14 January 2021 (UTC)