Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The Pig Faced Lady of Manchester Square and the Spanish Mule of Madrid 2

The Pig Faced Lady of Manchester Square and the Spanish Mule of Madrid[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 31 Dec 2010 at 20:06:10 (UTC)

Reason: I've nominated this before and it sadly just missed out due to lack of participation, so I'm giving it another bash. This is a very interesting and striking picture of extremely interesting subject matter- it may well make a great April Fools' Day POTD. Clear EV in the context of the (very well developed) article- there are two paragraphs (and two blockquotes) devoted entirely to this image. Other than that, the file is of a very high quality, all the text is readable, the colours are great (and the "yellowing" was actually on the original) and the image is nice and big. It's aged well.
Articles in which this image appears: Pig-faced women
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Others
Creator: George Cruikshank

Support as nominator --J Milburn (talk) 20:06, 22 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support I guess. It is pretty interesting, but it's weird.. I'm giving it full support mostly for quality. --I'ḏ ♥One 23:39, 22 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I don't really get this image, but I am pretty sure that the text on bottom should be transcripted to the image description page before passing FP? Nergaal (talk) 21:25, 23 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- The image contrasts "The Pig Faced Lady of Manchester Square" (a person genuinely believed to exist) with "The Spanish Mule of Madrid" (a charicature of Ferdinand VII of Spain). I implore you to take a look at the article- a fascinating read. I will transcribe the text if you genuinely believe it is necessary. J Milburn (talk) 22:43, 23 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Text added to image page.

- I took care of the text. Someone just needs to add it to the image...

Ah: sure a pair was never seen so justly form'd to meet by nature!!!

The Pig Faced Lady of Manchester Square

This extraordinary Female is about 18 years of age - of High rank & great fortune Her body & limbs are of the most perfect & Beautiful shape, but, her head & Face resembles that of a Pig - she eats her Victuals out of a Silver Trough in the same manner as Pigs do, & when spoken to she can only answer by Grunting & her cheif amusement is the Piano on which she plays most delightfully.

The Spanish Mule of Madrid

This wonderful monster: (to the great greif of his subjects) is a King!!! He was caught about 7 years ago by Buonaparte, & during his confinement in France, amused himself by singing anthems & working a Robe* in Tamboue* for the Holy Vigrin! but since his liberation, he has amused himself, by Hanging his best Friends!!!!!

"Wonders will never cease"!!!

--Starred words may not be correct. --AmericanXplorer13 (talk) 00:16, 24 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I can't quite make out that phrase either... J Milburn (talk) 23:16, 24 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I think it should read "working a Robe in Tambour", the definition of 'Tambour' being (according to the OED) 'A species of embroidery in which patterns are worked with a needle of peculiar form on material stretched in a tambour-frame' (definition 4b for 'tambour' as noun). This would fit with what the picture depicts. NotFromUtrecht (talk) 00:37, 25 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well done- I was going down the route of a "role" in "Tamlowe", assuming there was a French place name in their somewhere! I'll add it to the image page. J Milburn (talk) 01:00, 25 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: the source linked on the image page provides a version which is not so tightly cropped. I'm not happy with the way that the current version crops the edges of the paper off, and even goes so far as to crop out the edge of the paint which has been used to colour the print. I'd quite happily support an uncropped version (cropping out the whitespace at the sides is fine, of course). NotFromUtrecht (talk) 20:47, 24 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Given the lack of any comments disagreeing with my previous comment, I've replaced the original image, and therefore Support this nomination. NotFromUtrecht (talk) 12:21, 27 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, that seems to have helped. Sorry for the silence from my end :) J Milburn (talk) 12:25, 27 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. Incidentally, why do we have a local version of this image instead of deleting it and using the Commons one? NotFromUtrecht (talk) 09:04, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That's what the uploader wants. There are a lot of people who dislike Commons for various reasons, or are just more able to keep an eye on their uploads if they are here. J Milburn (talk) 11:51, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support, good EV and resolution. --Avenue (talk) 06:44, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support: Decent EV in its article and notable artist. Good resolution, quality, and condition. Maedin\^talk 07:32, 31 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:The Pig-faced Lady and the Spanish Mule.jpg --Jujutacular ^talk 21:05, 31 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]