Talk:Eight Bells (painting)

A fact from Eight Bells (painting) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 September 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that artist N.C. Wyeth named his Maine home after Winslow Homer's 1886 painting Eight Bells (pictured)?

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Artistic licence?

In reality, both observers would have had their sextants to their eyes - Maybe. Maybe one of them is having trouble with his. "where has my vernier scale gone?" he might be saying. or "Oh crap, I've dropped the captain's sextant, I hope it's not broken". --Robert EA Harvey (talk) 11:15, 27 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

File:WinslowHomer-Eight Bells 1886.jpg to appear as POTD soon

Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:WinslowHomer-Eight Bells 1886.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on January 22, 2016. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2016-01-22. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:34, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Picture of the day

Eight Bells is an 1886 oil painting by the American artist Winslow Homer which depicts two sailors determining their boat's position. Though Eight Bells only sold for $400, it was praised by critics at its first exhibition in 1888. The painting is now held by the Addison Gallery of American Art.Painting: Winslow Homer

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$400

Why is that low "$400 (approximately $10,000 today)"? --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 01:47, 22 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Possible copyvio

This page http://www.winslowhomer.org/eight-bells.jsp has very similar text, does not acknowledge Wikipedia and says it is copyright all rights reserved. Looks like they copied it? Billlion (talk) 21:12, 8 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Way back Machine has the text the same from Jan 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120108235919/http://www.winslowhomer.org/eight-bells.jsp, whereas this article has substantially the same text before that. Looks like they copied Wikipedia? Billlion (talk) 21:15, 8 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Details of noon sight

Following a discussion on NavList http://fer3.com/arc/m2.aspx/Wikipedia-article-Winslow-Homers-Eight-Bells-FrankReed-apr-2019-g44746 initiated by Frank Reed, I edited out the claim for artistic license and the incorrect description of rocking. As well as being speculative it constitutes WP:NOR original research. A also removed the claim that dawn and dusk sights were more common (at that time) as it is not supported by the references (and the discussion on NavList suggest it is not true). I think it would be great if there was an analysis of the painting from the point of view of celestial navigation, but that needs to be published somewhere it can be peer reviewed before we can use it here. It is a shame the Winslowhomer.org blindly copied it without attribution!Billlion (talk) 07:36, 10 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Just to note these parts were added by anonymous editor (ip address), otherwise I would reach out to them on their talk page. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eight_Bells_%28painting%29&type=revision&diff=384689677&oldid=384633208 Billlion (talk) 07:41, 10 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]