Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The Journey

The Journey

 * Reason:Believe it or not, the only example of illustration at children's literature was a small black and white nonfree image until this took its place. Elizabeth Shippen Green was a children's book illustrator and this example seems especially apt: a child peers through a train window and imagines palaces in the air.  Scanned from the original oil painting and restored from File:The Journey.jpg.  Lower resolution version for slower connections available at File:The_Journey2_courtesy_copy.jpg.
 * Articles this image appears in:Elizabeth Shippen Green, Children's literature, Josephine Preston Peabody
 * Creator:Elizabeth Shippen Green


 * Support as nominator -- Durova Charge! 16:40, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment A propos of nothing, you're prompting me to look for some good hi-res scans of the N.C. Wyeth illustrations for books like Treasure Island. Spikebrennan (talk) 19:51, 24 February 2009 (UTC).  I can't upload from where I am, but what about this?
 * Support This is encyclopedic and relates to the subject very well. An excellent illustration! Mimigu (talk) 03:28, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Support Excellent EV and simply beautiful. Makeemlighter (talk) 13:31, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Support per Mimigu. Fletcher (talk) 23:30, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Support - beautiful in detail. Complete and informative caption. &mdash; Mattisse  (Talk) 20:52, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment: Are we certain that this is a picture of an oil painting?  I don't know that much about painting and the different media, but this doesn't look like an oil to me.  Would someone be able to elaborate?   Mae din \talk 19:33, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 * That's what it says in the Library of Congress bibliographic notes. Durova Charge! 19:50, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 * What is the likelihood that they may have it labelled incorrectly? I'm not certain that the Library of Congress could have got it wrong, but I think it would be very embarrassing to feature a painting as an oil when it might not be.  Shame my oil painter friend and I have separated, or I would ask him.  Does anyone else think this looks like an oil?   Mae din \talk 20:10, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 * See WP:RS, WP:V, and WP:NOR. Durova Charge! 20:15, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you, I know all of those. I wasn't suggesting that it be labelled as something else; I was suggesting that it needn't be heralded in the caption if there was some reasonable doubt.  I'm not even suggesting that my doubts are reasonable, which is why I was asking for further opinions, which haven't been provided yet.   Mae din \talk 20:27, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 * We have no source as a basis for doubting the accuracy of the caption. There are many styles of oil painting, and a highly reliable source that states this is in that medium.  If a new source emerges to contradict that, then of course that would be a different matter.  Durova Charge! 20:42, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

MER-C 06:12, 3 March 2009 (UTC)