Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:1 Wild Turkey.jpg

Wild Turkey

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Reason: Beautiful Audubon colour engraving of the world's most fabulous fowl. Oh, that haughty posture—makes me hungry!
Articles in which this image appears: John James Audubon, The Birds of America, Turkey (bird)
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds
Creator: John James Audubon

Support as nominator – Curly Turkey ¡gobble! 09:15, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Gorgeous... but is it just me, or are the margins a bit tight? — Crisco 1492 (talk) 11:04, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- That was done purposely to provide maximal turkey. Curly Turkey ¡gobble! 11:25, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  - Perhaps, but I doubt the original engraving had the lower land right up to the margins. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 12:05, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    - In the top left-hand corner there is some text that looks like it should say "No 1", but most of the "N" is chopped off. 109.153.225.26 (talk) 14:39, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Print techniques can differ from edition to edition, depending on how they use the paper and the plate. However the rest is ‎ 7,787 × 11,601 pixels and magnifique. Hafspajen (talk) 15:05, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Like here

I doubt that what we see is the true left edge of the print. Possibly the print has been cut out of a book, and the "No. 1" text disappeared into the spine. The left-hand edge is odd. At first it looks ragged, and I thought it was the actual cut edge, but looking more closely it seems to have been cropped in a series of slightly stepped exact straight lines, as if done in multiple stages in an image editor for some reason. I'm not saying it's a big deal; it's just puzzling. 109.152.147.122 (talk) 18:27, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support - most of the engraving's he made are tight in the The Birds of America. Hafspajen (talk) 11:05, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support - That is one impressive and personable turkey. HullIntegrity^\ talk / 12:42, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Amazing! - National Names 2000 (talk) 12:54, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]