Comment - On my monitor and to my untrained eye, the background on some of the images is striped at thumbnail size, though this is not apparent when looking at a larger version. This particularly applies to Tyler, Polk, Lincoln, McKinley and Roosevelt, but to a lesser extent some of the others.
Cwmhiraeth (
talk) 05:59, 3 October 2014 (UTC)reply
Hi
Cwmhiraeth- I've enlarged and re-spaced the thumbnail images to reduce the effect somewhat. However (and someone please correct me if I'm wrong), thumbnail images are a means to open the files themselves and aren't part of evaluating a nomination.--
Godot13 (
talk) 07:24, 3 October 2014 (UTC)reply
My thumbnails aren't showing up like that, oddly enough. Usually the striping effect is from
halftoning or similar printing processes, though I don't think I've ever seen engravings get striped. What browser are you on? That might affect it. —
Crisco 1492 (
talk) 08:24, 3 October 2014 (UTC)reply
That makes sense. I believe that's an artefact of MediaWiki's downsampling of JPEGs, rather than something wrong with the file itself (any engraving has the possibility of creating a moire pattern). Since FPs are judged according to full size only, that's fortunately not too big of an issue. —
Crisco 1492 (
talk) 10:34, 3 October 2014 (UTC)reply
Moiré patterns seem a good explanation for the phenomenon. Happy to support this nomination.
Cwmhiraeth (
talk) 15:05, 3 October 2014 (UTC)reply
Support - Spent some time looking at Arthur at full size, trying to puzzle out exactly how the engraver(s) went about their work- for example the edge of his collar is roughly drawn, with maybe three lines, which contrasts oddly with the precision of the shading lines. yes, I have got a life
Xanthomelanoussprog (
talk) 11:24, 3 October 2014 (UTC)reply
Support - Superb quality, historically invaluable, and an asset to Wikipedia as an Encyclopedia. -- (Aside comment: Engravers almost always use a model for their engravings. For example, the engraving here of Washington was modeled after a
painting by
Gilbert Stuart. This is the same portrait used for the engraving on the one dollar bill and on a number of postage stamps. (
Example). It would be nice to add such notes in the file summaries of these images in the future, per available information.) --
Gwillhickers (
talk) 01:56, 4 October 2014 (UTC).reply
Thanks
Gwillhickers, definitely on my list of things to do. I started
here for the vignettes. Thanks.--
Godot13 (
talk) 03:21, 4 October 2014 (UTC)reply