Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The Deluge - Gustave Doré

The Deluge[edit]

Reason

It's by Gustave Doré, usually considered a master engraver, and scanned at very, very high resolution. As I now have a genuine original-plate Victorian printing of the Doré Bible, there will be a number of plates from this, but I will try and choose just the best 10-20% for FP.

This image is a powerful depiction of the doomed men and beasts in the story of Noah's Ark trying desperately and futilely to save their children. A much-lower-resolution version of this was already used throughout Wikipedia (I've replaced it), this high-res version improves on that, while retaining the encyclopedic value.

Articles this image appears in: Gustave Doré, Antediluvian, Deluge (mythology), Noach (parsha), Mythical origins of language (Eh, well, I didn't add it here, I just replaced the lower-res one.), Banishment in the Bible. I have added it to Noah's Ark.
Creator: Gustave Doré

Support as nominator --Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 00:50, 12 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Good EV and just a beautiful picture. Makeemlighter (talk) 14:28, 12 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Wonderful find and highly encyclopedic, but the coloration of the paper bothers me. I realize that you've scanned this from an antique book so the paper will have yellowed, but can color correction or brightening be done to improve contrast so that this looks more like it did when the book was originally printed? Spikebrennan (talk) 03:31, 14 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Certainly it could be, but I thought I'd try a more minimal restoration for once. =) Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 04:52, 14 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support de Bivort 08:57, 18 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support I would have liked a better colouration, but its not enough to make me oppose. Spencer^Merry^Christmas! 02:40, 20 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:Gustave Doré - The Holy Bible - Plate I, The Deluge.jpg --Noodle snacks (talk) 06:24, 20 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]