Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/Orlando Furioso 20.jpg

Orlando Furioso

 * Reason:Right: Gustave Dore's Woodblocks did not have ruler-sharp borders; the border given is not original. Further, it's a bad crop: The bottom of the image is cut off, as can be seen by the signature on the left. It's watermarked - the T in the lower right - and, if I recall correctly, that means this is the same series as Divine Comedy edition of Doré's prints I had for a while, which I discovered had major and severe problems - as in, they cut off over 10% of some of the images, others were over-inked, and they clearly did not care in the least when preparing them. The oddly square shape of this one leads me to suspect that this is missing fairly substantial material from the top and bottom, as every single Doré illustration I've seen of this type [He does two types - labour-intensive plates, such as all our Doré featured pictures, and small illustrations, much less detailed, for pages between the plates] - has had the same rectangular dimensions.

I've done a lot of work with Doré. We have numerous Featured Pictures of his work now, from much better, contemporary editions. The bar's been raised far above this one's status. Adam Cuerden (talk) 23:20, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Articles this image appears in:Orlando Furioso, Gustave Doré, Princess and dragon
 * Previous nomination/s:Featured picture candidates/Orlando Furioso
 * Nominator: Adam Cuerden (talk)


 * Delist &mdash; Adam Cuerden (talk) 23:20, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Delist I'm glad we have an expert to tell us about these things. Papa Lima Whiskey  (talk) 10:29, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Delist, agreed. J Milburn (talk) 11:49, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Delist: Happy to rely on Adam's opinion, thanks for the research.  Mae din\ talk 09:06, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Delist — raeky ( talk 02:14, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Delist Kaldari (talk) 04:08, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

-- Jujutacular  T · C 17:27, 17 July 2010 (UTC)