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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde poster

Original - Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) was a classic Gothic work of the 1880s, seeing many stage adaptations. It is about a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll, and the misanthropic Mr. Edward Hyde, focusing on the split personality phenomenon.

Edit 1 Reduced paper yellowing, converted to jpeg (2MB instead of 10MB).

Edit 2 Perspective correction, new framing.

Reason

It is a high resolution PD image illustrating one of the best known works of Robert Louis Stevenson. Jekyll and Hyde has become the most famous example of split personality.

Articles in which this image appears

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Adaptations of Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Gothic fiction

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Literary illustrations

Creator

National Prtg. & Engr. Co. (1880s) [1], uploaded by commons:User:Nard the Bard

• Support as nominator --Redtigerxyz ^Talk 11:32, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Support edit 2: Good work. Papa Lima Whiskey--Redtigerxyz ^Talk 17:06, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

• Support edits 1 and 2 Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 18:21, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
• Comment Would like to see tighter crop and a very slight clockwise rotation. Jujutacular ^T · C 22:51, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
  • Actually not a rotation, needs perspective cropping - the uppermost line is level, but the bottom is not. Jujutacular ^T · C 01:05, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
    • See edit 2. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 10:31, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
• Support edit 2. Thanks PLW. Jujutacular ^T · C 15:56, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
• Support edit 2: prefer the tighter crop. EV isn't outstanding but still a valuable enough addition, and has been stable in all three articles for months. Maedin\^talk 10:34, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
• Support edit 2, per Maedin. Mostlyharmless (talk) 05:13, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
• Support edit 2. Nice historical illustration. - Darwinek (talk) 09:12, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
• Support edit 2 per Maedin. --Avenue (talk) 21:33, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

Promoted File:Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde poster edit2.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 03:34, 25 April 2010 (UTC)